"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
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"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
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"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
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"I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish."
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"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars."
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"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."
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"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country."
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"I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children."
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"Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so."
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"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves."
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"It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on"
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"Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow."
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"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
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"Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins."
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"A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian."
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"I am in the prime of senility."
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"It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers."
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"If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend."
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"Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest."
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"Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners."
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