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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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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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The used key is always bright.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
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Necessity knows no law I know some attorneys of the same.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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