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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
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If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
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Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.
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You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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I am in the prime of senility.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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