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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
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The sun of liberty is set you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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I am in the prime of senility.
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