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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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Let the experiment be made.
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