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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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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains then shall thy pocket begin to thrive creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
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One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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