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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 everything one has a mind to do.
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Some are weather wise, some are otherwise.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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The second vice is by lying, the first is running into debt.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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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.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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Thou can’t joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may’st a friend into an enemy.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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To be humble to the superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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Well done is better than well said.
| Benjamin Franklin | 
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