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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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Remember that credit is money.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
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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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