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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Great hopes make everything great possible
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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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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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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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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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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