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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Do well by doing good.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Little rogues easily become great ones.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
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