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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

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