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Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanac
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

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