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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like Im ready to start my season at Augusta. – Tiger Woods

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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect. – Yoko Ono

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. – Benjamin Spock

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My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. – Steve Case

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I dont want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesnt sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? – Ian St. John

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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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