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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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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
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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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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
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No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
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The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
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