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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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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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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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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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He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
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