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If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
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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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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
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That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, I may say without vanity, but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
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