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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin , Politician
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Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath, inventor, writer, and statesman. With his contributions to science, literature, and politics, he made a significant impact in multiple fields, playing a key role in the American Revolution and becoming one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Well done is better than well said....
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires....
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones....
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later....
There was never a good war, or a bad peace....
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it....
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor....
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it....
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter....
He that lives upon hope will die fasting....

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....