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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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Time is money, be a better you.
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Never contradict anybody.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.
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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
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Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
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