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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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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
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Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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