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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
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In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
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