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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's Popular Quotes

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

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Never contradict anybody.

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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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