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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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