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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
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London
England
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Naked Truth needs no shift.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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Next to God, thy parents.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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