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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
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A light purse is a heavy curse.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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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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Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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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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Handle your tools without mittens.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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