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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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What can laws do without morals?
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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Display is as false as it is costly.
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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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