Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
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Benjamin Franklin quotes & passages
1 passage by Benjamin Franklin, from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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