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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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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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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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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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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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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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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
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I am in the prime of senility.
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In success be moderate.
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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