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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
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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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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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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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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
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Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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If we are industrious, we shall never starve for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
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When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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