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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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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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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
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