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Force shites upon Reason's Back.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
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Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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