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Do well by doing good.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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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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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
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The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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