American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
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