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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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