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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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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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There is always room for the man of force.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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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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America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Those who are fear'd, are hated.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
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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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The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
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It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.
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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
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