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Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please. – Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – Benjamin Franklin

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. – Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. – Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then…

To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

A penny saved is a penny earned. – Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their…

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor…

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of…

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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