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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
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You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
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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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What I am to be, I am now becoming.
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He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
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Great spenders are bad lenders.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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