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Handle your tools without mittens.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Poor Richard
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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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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