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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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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
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All cats look gray in the dark.
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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
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Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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