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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
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