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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Necessity knows no law I know some attorneys of the same.
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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