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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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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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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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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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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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