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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.
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I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, I may say without vanity, but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.
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