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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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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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