Benjamin Franklin

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"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."	Happiness, Joy
"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."	Evil, Honesty, Knowledge
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."	Birth, Birthdays, Men
"Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly."	Miscellaneous
"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."	Age, Knowledge, Life
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."	Ability, Love
"Without justice courage is weak."	Age, Courage, Justice
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead."	Death
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."	Death, Reading, Writing
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"	Ability, Talent
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."	Anger, Guns
"We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant."	Business
"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."	Freedom
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"	God
"The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist."	Government
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."	Justice
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."	Economics, Liberty
"Where liberty is, there is my country."	Economics, Liberty
"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment."	Age
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