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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure and that is to try to please everyone else.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
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