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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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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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Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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