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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: equity, justice, laws
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: examinations, failure, humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: death
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: death, life, wordplay
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that can have patience can have what he will.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: determination, inspirational, patience
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
    3447 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: talent, wisdom, work
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
    860 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: dissent, duty, independent-thought
    780 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
    tags: knowledge
    881 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: friendship
    466 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: remaining-silent, speaking, tact
    535 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: growth, new-year
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never confuse Motion with Action.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: action
    355 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
    Keep in the sunlight.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: trouble, worry
    315 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects ...
    tags: 1789, certainty, taxes
    246 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: american-revolution
    264 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: beauty, love, sex
    200 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: advice, enemies, self-reflection
    293 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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