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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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What can laws do without morals?
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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Trouble Springs From Idleness.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
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A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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There is no little enemy
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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