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Benjamin Franklin

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

     -- Benjamin Franklin

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

     -- Benjamin Franklin

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

     -- Benjamin Franklin

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

     -- Benjamin Franklin

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

     -- Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

     -- Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

     -- Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing

     -- Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

     -- Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

     -- Benjamin Franklin