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1706–1790 United States
Benjamin Franklin (17 January, 1706 – 17 April, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and a diplomatic scientific and novice electrician; he was a major figure in the U.S.
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All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry,[Sept. 1743] and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave,[Sept. 1741] as Poor Richard says.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
As frequent Mention is made in the News Papers from Europe, of the Success of the Philadelphia Experiment for drawing the Electric Fire from Clouds by Means of pointed Rods of Iron erected on high Buildings, &c. it may be agreeable to the Curious to be inform'd, that the same Experiment has succeeded in Philadelphia, tho' made in a different and more easy Manner, which any one may try, as follows.
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
Misattributed This is actually from the musical play 1776 (1969)
Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
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God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
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Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
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Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France.
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Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
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Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
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