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Joshua Cowley

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“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: character, flaws, perfection

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“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: inspirational

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“... the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter...”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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