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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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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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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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