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Great talkers are little doers.
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 would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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All cats are gray in the dark.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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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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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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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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Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Display is as false as it is costly.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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