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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There's no gain, without pain.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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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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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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