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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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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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Lost time can never be found again
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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Every pot must sit on its own bottom.
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