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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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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
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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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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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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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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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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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Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
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They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
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Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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