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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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O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
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What I am to be, I am now becoming.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
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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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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
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