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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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Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
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Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
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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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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends
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Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
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Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
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