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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection, he stated. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
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To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his 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's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
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Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
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Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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Great talkers are little doers.
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Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
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