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Let thy vices die before thee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.
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Do well by doing good.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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