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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his t

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

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. – Benjamin Franklin

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Courage
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Benjamin Franklin
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. – Benjamin Franklin

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Family
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Benjamin Franklin
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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

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Miscellaneous

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson

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Miscellaneous

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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Miscellaneous

Every man is the son of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Miscellaneous

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. – Aristotle

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I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning. – April Winchell

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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. – Erma Bombeck

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