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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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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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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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No gains without pains.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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