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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
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That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
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Wink at small faults remember thou hast great ones.
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Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
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Never contradict anybody.
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