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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
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London
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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The public must and will be served.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
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