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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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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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