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  1. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

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  2. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

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  3. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #conqueror #conquest #destruction #famine #glory #hero #plague #war #warfare

  4. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

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  5. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    Robbers must exalted be,
    Small ones on the Gallow-Tree,
    While greater ones ascend to Thrones,
    But what is that to thee or me?

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

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  6. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
    Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
    Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
    Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
    With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
    And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
    Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
    And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard (1742 ed.)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…

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  7. A quotation from Franklin

    Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard (1739 ed.)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…

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