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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ↗

— 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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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Diligence is the mother of good luck. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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