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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Creditors have better memories than debtors. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds. ↗

— Saint Gregory

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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No nation was ever ruined by trade. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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