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• Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. Benjamin Frankli
• All would live long; but none would be old. -- Benjamin Frankli
• The State: friend to all, enemy of each one.
• Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossossion.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use
  and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech....
• Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. -- Ben Frankli
• The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all -- doing nothing.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)...