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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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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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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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He that's content hath enough.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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