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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
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