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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
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Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
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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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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
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