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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom and maintain your independency: be industrious and free be frugal and free.
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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
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Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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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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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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