Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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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...

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

—Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don't.

—Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

—Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

—Benjamin Franklin

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

—Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

About Benjamin Franklin

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