"Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them."
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"Don't halloo until you're out of the wood."
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"Dally not with other folk's spouses or money."
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"In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it."
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"Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?""
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"Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him."
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"Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare."
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"If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her."
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"A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent."
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"Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much."
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"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."
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"Man is a tool-making animal"
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"What you would seem to be, be really."
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"If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to."
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