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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Display is as false as it is costly.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are 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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The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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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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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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