The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.Benjamin Franklin
I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others
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The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author.
Benjamin Franklin
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