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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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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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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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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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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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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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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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