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Sensible Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,…
- I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
- We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
- In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he…
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