The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin


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That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

Benjamin Franklin

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

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The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Benjamin Franklin


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Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Benjamin Franklin

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin


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In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

Benjamin Franklin

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Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Benjamin Franklin


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A place for everything, everything in its place".

Benjamin Franklin


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