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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— 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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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ↗

— 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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Distrust and caution are the parents of security. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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