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I wish it (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 Deity.

Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's Popular Quotes

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

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There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheati…

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Never contradict anybody.

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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

- Benjamin Franklin
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