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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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If you have time don't wait for time.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
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Time is money, be a better you.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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The States acceded to the Union.
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One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
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