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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 absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
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A true friend is the greatest possesion.
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Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
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He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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