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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
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An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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Great spenders are bad lenders.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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