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Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Take time for all things.
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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
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