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• A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- B. Frankli
• Half the truth is often a great lie." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)...
• Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Little strokes fell great oaks.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
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• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• What maintains one vice, would bring up two children.
  Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and farther, beware of little expense...
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...