American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
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Mine is better than ours.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
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