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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 game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
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