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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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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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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
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A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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