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She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public the advantage of a religious character among private persons the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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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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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
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