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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
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