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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
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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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