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Results of search for Author: Benjamin Franklin - Page 1 of 14
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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