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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. - B

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. – Benjamin Franklin

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I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
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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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respect
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When a habit begins to cost money, its called a hobby. – Yiddish Proverb

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Leisure is the exultation of the possible. – Martin Buber

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. – S. W. Duffield

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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. – Eminem

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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – Ralph W. Sockman

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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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Im sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think its outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. – Marian Wright Edelman

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