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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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All cats are gray in the dark.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
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