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" He that's secure is not safe. "
Benjamin Franklin
Safe
He
Secure
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" God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' "
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Man
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" A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. "
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Wrapped
Himself
Makes
" If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. "
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Anything
Nobody
" Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. "
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Against
Obedience
God
" If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. "
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Wishes
Troubles
Man
" Distrust and caution are the parents of security. "
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Caution
Security
Parents
" Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. "
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Die
People
Some
" Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. "
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Man
Healthy
Health
" It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. "
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Those
First
Desire
" Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. "
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War
Man
Peace
" An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "
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Investment
Education
Best
" I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. "
Benjamin Franklin
Quiet
World
Truth
" Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. "
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Open
Before
Eyes
" Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. "
Benjamin Franklin
Never
Amended
Every
" Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. "
Benjamin Franklin
Never
Take
House
" Creditors have better memories than debtors. "
Benjamin Franklin
Than
Better
Creditors
" He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. "
Benjamin Franklin
Knows
Peace
Speak
" Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? "
Benjamin Franklin
Shade
Hide
Talents
" Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
Benjamin Franklin
Content
He
Nobody
" The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "
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Right
Yourself
You
" All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. "
Benjamin Franklin
Wars
Expensive
Mischievous
" Mine is better than ours. "
Benjamin Franklin
Mine
Better
Than
" There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. "
Benjamin Franklin
Being Happy
Happy
Two
" There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands. "
Benjamin Franklin
Stronger
Natural
Best
" We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. "
Benjamin Franklin
People
Easy
Improvement
" Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. "
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Friends
Your
Win
" A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. "
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Empire
Most
Like
" He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. "
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Love
He
Falls
" Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. "
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Buy
Long
Thy