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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Be not sick too late, nor well too soon
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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whatever you become be good at it
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
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If we are industrious, we shall never starve for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
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Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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