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The Patriot Post ^ | 18 February 1728 | Benjamin Franklin

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"I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

-- Benjamin Franklin (The Busy-body, No. 3, 18 February 1728)

Reference: The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Bigelow, ed., vol. 1 (350)

[Lazamataz]

I love you.

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ping.

Memo to Bill Clinton: read it and weep.

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I love you.

I told you never to say that in public. Now they're going to talk.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/singlehtml.htm

Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine Languages.
So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.

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This is one of my favorites

[docbnj]

I suppose that leaves the old reprobate Ben himself out of the running.

[tarheelswamprat]

"He that is jealous of every wrinkle in another's nose is conscious of a stink in his own britches." - Benjamin Franklin

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and cloth, or the Gout will seize you and plague you both," Franklin wrote. Franklin relished his food, basked in the company of women, and at times used items of apparel to influence the way people perceived him. And, indeed, gout plagued Franklin for much of his life.

[Vision]

It's a great truth, but Franklin himself was a playboy; right? I guess he didn't go overboard except with the food.

[Vision]

The passage Clinton loved to drop..."Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

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It's a great truth, but Franklin himself was a playboy; right?

admonitions from experience, perhaps.

[jla]

Completing the Autobiography of Ben Franklin - Mrs. Schlafly's daily radio commentary for today.

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great pictures on the FR page.