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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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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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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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