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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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Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
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People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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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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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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