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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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Love well, whip well.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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No gains without pains.
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A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
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Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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