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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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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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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.
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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
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The States acceded to the Union.
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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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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Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
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