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Little rogues easily become great ones.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Poor Richard
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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
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Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
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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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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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