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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
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Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.
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That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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