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“ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. ”

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

~ Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.]

~ Benjamin Franklin