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The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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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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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
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A good example is the best sermon.
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Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
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