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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. – Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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