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15 Benjamin Franklin Quotes to Make You Wiser

One of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a huge impact on the history we know today. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for constantly campaigning for colonial unity and co-drafting both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Furthermore, he organized the first successful American lending library.

Besides being an honored and respected politician, Benjamin Franklin was a writer, inventor, freemason, humorist and diplomat; all of these gifts from a man who never even finished school. His determination and moral consciousness made him one of America's most iconic thinkers and 'do-ers' in history.

Here are 15 Benjamin Franklin quotes to make you become the wisest person you know:

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We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!
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