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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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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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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death....
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody....
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast....
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grap...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them....
To seek the highest good is to live well....
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Hea...
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good....
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good....
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another....