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Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
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Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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