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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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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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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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Force shites upon Reason's Back.
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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Families ought to be noisy.
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
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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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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Trouble Springs From Idleness.
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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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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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