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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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Wink at small faults remember thou hast great ones.
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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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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Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
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Never contradict anybody.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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What I am to be, I am now becoming.
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