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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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