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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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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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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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A true friend is the greatest possesion.
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
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The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
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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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The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
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