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"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance." — Benjamin Franklin
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"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees" — Benjamin Franklin
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." — Benjamin Franklin
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest" — Benjamin Franklin
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"The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"" — Benjamin Franklin
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"A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Look before, or you'll find yourself behind" — Benjamin Franklin
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"A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches" — Benjamin Franklin
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"God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees" — Benjamin Franklin
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"Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech" — Benjamin Franklin
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"Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog" — Benjamin Franklin
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"Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence." — Benjamin Franklin
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"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich." — Benjamin Franklin
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." — Benjamin Franklin
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"He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books" — Benjamin Franklin
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"If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself." — Benjamin Franklin
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"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." — Benjamin Franklin
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