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Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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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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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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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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He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
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Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.
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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
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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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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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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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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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