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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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