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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.
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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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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
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They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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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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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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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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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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