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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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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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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
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