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Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
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I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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