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«A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.»
«Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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diverting, that nation
«Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Historians, relate
«He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Office of
«By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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duration, in degree
«He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Wealth
«Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.»
«Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.»
«It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.»
«As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Religion
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