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Hope of gain lessens pain.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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