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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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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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He that drinks fast, pays slow.
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Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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