He that cannot obey, cannot command. Benjamin Franklin

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He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession: Statesman
Nationality: American

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libeling and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country.

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