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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.