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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection, he stated. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
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Success is the residue of planning.
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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Great hopes make everything great possible
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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