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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 and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains then shall thy pocket begin to thrive creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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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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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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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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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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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.
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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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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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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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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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
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