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

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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Well done is better than well said.

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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Honesty is the best policy.

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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Half a truth is often a great lie.

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain — and most fools do.

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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