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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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Life is a kind of chess.
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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Reckless youth makes rueful age.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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Better slip with foot than tongue.
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Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
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The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
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