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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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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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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Never contradict anybody.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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