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Life is a kind of chess.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
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Let thy vices die before thee.
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It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
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