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That Man Alone Loves Himself Rightly Who Procures The Greatest Possible Good To Himself Through The Whole Of His Existence And So Pursues Pleasure As Not To Give For It More Than It Is Worth.

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That Man Alone Loves Himself Rightly Who Procures The Greatest Possible Good To Himself Through The Whole Of His Existence And So Pursues Pleasure As Not To Give For It More Than It Is Worth.

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The Greatest Inventions Are Those Inquiries Which Tend To Increase The Power Of Man Over Matter.

Idleness And Pride Tax With A Heavier Hand Than Kings And Governments.

The Problem With Doing Nothing Is Not Knowing When You're Finished.

Industry And Patience Are The Surest Means Of Plenty.

What Is A Butterfly? At Best He's But A Caterpiller Drest. The Gaudy Fop's His Picture Just.

He That Is Rich Need Not Live Sparingly, And He That Can Live Sparingly Need Not Be Rich.

The Only Things Of Certainty Are Death And Taxes.

A Father's A Treasure; A Brother's A Comfort; A Friend Is Both.

If It Were Not For The Belly, The Back Might Wear Gold.

A Man Of Knowledge Like A Rich Soil, Feeds If Not A World Of Corn, A World Of Weeds.

What Can Laws Do Without Morals?

I Have Never Seen The Philosopher's Stone That Turns Lead Into Gold, But I Have Known The Pursuit Of It Turn A Man's Gold Into Lead.

There Is Always Room For The Man Of Force.

Those Who Are Fear'd, Are Hated.

Kings Have Long Arms, But Misfortune Longer: Let None Think Themselves Out Of Her Reach.

Proclaim Not All Thou Knowest, All Thou Knowest, All Thou Hast, Nor All Thou Cans't.

Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy. At Least, You Will By Such Conduct, Stand The Best Chance For Such Consequences.

Behold The Rain Which Descends From Heaven Upon Our Vineyards; There It Enters The Roots Of The Vines, To Be Changed Into Wine; A Constant Proof That God Loves Us, And Loves To See Us Happy.

I Am The Laziest Man In The World. I Invented All Those Things To Save Myself From Toil.

A New Truth Is A Truth, An Old Error Is An Error.

The Proof Of Gold Is Fire.

That Is Simple. In The Colonies We Issue Our Own Money. It Is Called Colonial Scrip. We Issue It In Proper Proportion To The Demands Of Trade And Industry To Make The Products Pass Easily From The Producers To The Consumers. In This Manner Creating For Ourselves Our Own Paper Money, We Control Its Purchasing Power, And We Have No Interest To Pay.

Some Men Grow Mad By Studying Much To Know, But Who Grows Mad By Studying Good To Grow.

'tis More Noble To Forgive, And More Manly To Despise, Than To Revenge An Injury.

Some Volumes Against Deism Fell Into My Hands ... They Produced An Effect Precisely The Reverse To What Was Intended By The Writers; For The Arguments Of The Deists, Which Were Cited In Order To Be Refuted, Appeared To Me Much More Forcibly Than The Refutation Itself; In A Word, I Soon Became A Thorough Deist.

The Golden Age Was Never The Present Age.

The Foundation Of All Happiness In Thinking Rightly.

A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed!

Friendship Memories

I Resolve To Speak Ill Of No Man Whatever, Not Even In A Matter Of Truth; But Rather By Some Means Excuse The Faults I Hear Charged Upon Others, And Upon Proper Occasions Speak All The Good I Know Of Everybody.

An Assembly Of Great Men Is The Greatest Fool Upon Earth.

Contentment Makes A Poor Person Rich And Discontent Makes A Rich Person Poor.

Remember, That Money Is Of The Prolific, Generating Nature. Money Can Beget Money, And Its Offspring Can Beget More, And So On. Five Shillings Turned Is Six, Turned Again It Is Seven And Threepence, And So On, Till It Becomes A Hundred Pounds. The More There Is Of It, The More It Produces Every Turning, So That The Profits Rise Quicker And Quicker. He That Kills A Breeding Sow, Destroys All Her Offspring To The Thousandth Generation. He That Murders A Crown, Destroys All That It Might Have Produced, Even Scores Of Pounds.

The Electrical Matter Consists Of Particles Extremely Subtile, Since It Can Permeate Common Matter, Even The Densest Metals, With Such Ease And Freedom As Not To Receive Any Perceptible Resistance.

To Be Proud Of Knowledge Is To Be Blind With Light.

I Never Knew A Man Who Was Good At Making Excuses Who Was Good At Anything Else.

Many People Die At Twenty Five And Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy Five.

Ill Customs And Bad Advice Are Seldom Forgotten.

Hope Of Gain Lessens Pain.

What You Would Seem To Be, Be Really.

A Word To The Wise Is Enough, And Many Words Won't Fill A Bushel.

The Problem With Common Sense Is, It Isn't.

We Have Been Assured, Sir, In The Sacred Writings, That 'except The Lord Build The House, They Labor In Vain That Build It' I Firmly Believe This; By Our Partial Local Interests; Our Projects Will Be Confounded, And We Ourselves Shall Become A Reproach And A By Word Down To Future Ages.

Philosophy As Well As Foppery Often Changes Fashion.

...it Is Prodigious The Quantity Of Good That May Be Done By One Man If He Will Make A Business Of It.

Hereafter, If You Should Observe An Occasion To Give Your Officers And Friends A Little More Praise Than Is Their Due, And Confess More Fault Than You Can Justly Be Charged With, You Will Only Become The Sooner For It, A Great Captain.

Bargaining Has Neither Friends Nor Relations.

Write With The Learned, Pronounce With The Vulgar.

So Much For Industry, My Friends, And Attention To One's Own Business; But To These We Must Add Frugality If We Would Make Our Industry More Certainly Successful. A Man May, If He Knows Not How To Save As He Gets, Keep His Nose All His Life To The Grindstone, And Die Not Worth A Grout At Last.

A Fat Kitchin, A Lean Will.

Clean Your Finger Before You Point At My Spots.

By Diligence And Patience, The Mouse Bit In Two The Cable.

A Full Belly Brings Forth Every Evil.

When Religion Is Good, It Will Take Care Of Itself. When It Is Not Able To Take Care Of Itself, And God Does Not See Fit To Take Care Of It, So That It Has To Appeal To The Civil Power For Support, It Is Evidence To My Mind That Its Cause Is A Bad One.

When Knaves Betray Each Other, One Can Scarce Be Blamed Or The Other Pitied.

When You Assemble A Number Of Men To Have The Advantage Of Their Joint Wisdom, You Inevitably Assemble With Those Men All Their Prejudices, Their Passions, Their Errors Of Opinion, Their Local Interests And Their Selfish Views.

I Fear The Man Who Drinks Water And So Remembers This Morning What The Rest Of Us Said Last Night

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I Firmly Believe This ... That Without His Concurring Aid We Shall Succeed In This Political Building No Better, Than The Builders Of Babel: We Shall Be Divided By Our Little Partial Local Interests; Our Projects Will Be Confounded, And We Ourselves Shall Become A Reproach And Bye Word Down To Future Ages. And What Is Worse, Mankind May Hereafter From This Unfortunate Instance, Despair Of Establishing Governments By Human Wisdom And Leave It To Chance, War And Conquest.

Some Books We Read, Tho' Few There Are That Hit The Happy Point Where Wisdom Joins With Wit.

What Signifies Philosophy That Does Not Apply To Some Use? May We Not Learn From Hence, That Black Clothes Are Not So Fit To Wear In A Hot Sunny Climate Or Season, As White Ones; Because In Such Cloaths The Body Is More Heated By The Sun When We Walk Abroad, And Are At The Same Time Heated By The Exercise, Which Double Heat Is Apt To Bring On Putrid Dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers And Seamen, Who Must March And Labour In The Sun, Should In The East Or West Indies Have An Uniform Of White?

He That Lives Well, Is Learned Enough.

And Where Is The Prince Who Can Afford To So Cover His Country With Troops For Its Defense, As That Ten Thousand Men Descending From The Clouds, Might Not In Many Places Do An Infinite Deal Of Mischief, Before A Force Could Be Brought Together To Repel Them?

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 Opinions, Modest, Sensible Men, Who Do Not Love Disputation, Will Probably Leave You Undisturbed In The Possession Of Your Error.

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Hide Not Your Talents. They For Use Were Made. What's A Sundial In The Shade?

Savages We Call Them Because Their Manners Differ From Ours.

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Learn Of The Skillful; He That Teaches Himself, Has A Fool For His Master.

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Laws Too Gentle Are Seldom Obeyed; Too Severe, Seldom Executed.

A Man Is Not Completely Born Until He Is Dead. Why Then Should We Grieve That A New Child Is Born Among The Immortals, A New Member Added To Their Happy Society?

Here Comes The Orator With His Flood Of Words And His Drop Of Reason.

Do Not Let Fancy Outrun Your Means.

A Life Of Leisure And A Life Of Laziness Are Two Things. There Will Be Sleeping Enough In The Grave.

Strict Punctuality Is A Cheap Virtue.

Take One Thing With Another, And The World Is A Pretty Good Sort Of A World, And It Is Our Duty To Make The Best Of It, And Be Thankful.

Where There's Marriage Without Love, There Will Be Love Without Marriage.

If You Ride A Horse, Sit Close And Tight, If You Ride A Man, Sit Easy And Light.

If Your Head Is Made Of Wax, Don't Walk In The Sun

Great Good Nature Without Prudence Is A Great Misfortune.

Do Not, However, Mistake Me. It Is Not To My Good Friend's Heresy That I Impute His Honesty. On The Contrary, 'tis His Honesty That Brought Upon Him The Character Of A Heretic.

The Most Trifling Actions That Affect A Man's Credit Are To Be Regarded. The Sound Of Your Hammer At Five In The Morning, Or At Nine At Night, Heard By A Creditor, Makes Him Easy Six Months Longer; But If He Sees You At The Billiard-table, Or Hears Your Voice At A Tavern, When You Should Be At Work, He Sends For His Money The Next Day.

Our Constitution Is In Actual Operation; Everything Appears To Promise That It Will Last; But In This World Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes.

Moderation In All Things - Including Moderation.

Enjoy The Present Hour, Be Mindful Of The Past; And Neither Fear Nor Wish The Approaches Of The Last. Learn Of The Skillful: He That Teaches Himself, Hath A Fool For His Master.

The Way To Wealth Depends On Just Two Words, Industry And Frugality.

It Is The Religion Of Ignorance That Tyranny Begins.

Tyranny Founding Fathers

I Have Lived, Sir, A Long Time, And The Longer I Live, The More Convincing Proofs I See Of This Truth — That God Governs In The Affairs Of Men.

Scarcely Have I Ever Heard Or Read The Introductory Phrase, "i May Say Without Vanity," But Some Striking And Characteristic Instance Of Vanity Has Immediately Followed.

Think Of These Things, Whence You Came, Where You Are Going, And To Whom You Must Account.

There Are Two Ways To Increase Your Wealth. Increase Your Means Or Decrease Your Wants. The Best Is To Do Both At The Same Time.

E'er You Remark Another's Sin, Bid Your Own Conscience Look Within.

Lying Rides Upon Debt's Back.

It Is Wonderful How Preposterously The Affairs Of The World Are Managed. We Assemble Parliaments And Councils To Have The Benefit Of Collected Wisdom, But We Necessarily Have, At The Same Time, The Inconvenience Of Their Collected Passions, Prejudices And Private Interests: For Regulating Commerce An Assembly Of Great Men Is The Greatest Fool On Earth

Repeal That [welfare] Law, And You Will Soon See A Change In Their Manners. ... Six Days Shalt Thou Labor, Though One Of The Old Commandments Long Treated As Out Of Date, Will Again Be Looked Upon As A Respectable Precept; Industry Will Increase, And With It Plenty Among The Lower People; Their Circumstances Will Mend, And More Will Be Done For Their Happiness By Inuring Them To Provide For Themselves, Than Could Be Done By Dividing All Your Estates Among Them.

Make No Expense But To Do Good To Others Or Yourself.

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Many Have Been Ruined By Buying Good Pennyworths.

Most People Return Small Favors, Acknowledge Medium Ones And Repay Greater Ones - With Ingratitude.

Prayers And Provender Hinder No Journey.

To All Apparent Beauties Blind, Each Blemish Strikes An Envious Mind.

Dangerous, Therefore, Is It To Take Shelter Under A Tree, During A Thunder-gust. It Has Been Fatal To Many, Both Men And Beasts.

We Can Defer, Yet Time Is Most Certainly Not.

You May Sometimes Be Much In The Wrong, In Owning Your Being In The Right.

It Is Better To Take Many Injuries Than To Give One.

The Electrical Matter Consists Of Particles Extremely Subtile, Since It Can Permeate Common Matter, Even The Densest Metals, With Such Ease And Freedom As Not To Receive Any Perceptible Resistance. If Anyone Should Doubt Whether The Electrical Matter Passes Through The Substance Of Bodies, Or Only Over Along Their Surfaces, A Shock From An Electrified Large Glass Jar, Taken Through His Own Body, Will Probably Convince Him. Electrical Matter Differs From Common Matter In This, That The Parts Of The Latter Mutually Attract, Those Of The Former Mutually Repel Each Other.

The Sun Of Liberty Is Set; You Must Light Up The Candle Of Industry And Economy.

Disdain The Chain, Preserve Your Freedom; And Maintain Your Independency: Be Industrious And Free; Be Frugal And Free.

Let Honesty Be As The Breath Of Thy Soul; Then Shalt Thou Reach The Point Of Happiness, And Independence Shall Be Thy Shield And Buckler, Thy Helmet And Crown; Then Shall Thy Soul Walk Upright, Nor Stoop To The Silken Wretch Because He Hath Riches, Nor Pocket An Abuse Because The Hand Which Offers It Wears A Ring Set With Diamonds.

The Two Most Beautiful Sights I Have Witnessed In My Life Are A Full Blown Ship At Sail And The Round-bellied Pregnant Female.

God Heals, And The Doctor Takes The Fees. Energy And Persistence Conquer All Things. He That Is Good For Making Excuses Is Seldom Good For Anything Else. How Many Observe Christ's Birthday! How Few, His Precepts! Oh, It's Easier To Keep Holidays Than Commandments. Well Done Is Better Than Well Said.

A [desire] To Abolish Slavery Prevails In North America, Many Of The Pennsylvanians Have Set Their Slaves At Liberty, And [virginia Legislators] Have Petitioned The King For Permission To Make A Law For Preventing The Importation Of More [slaves] Into That Colony. This Request, However, Will Probably Not Be Granted, As Their Former Laws Of That Kind Have Always Been Repealed.

I Am A Mortal Enemy To Arbitrary Government And Unlimited Power. I Am Naturally Very Jealous For The Rights And Liberties Of My Country, And The Least Encroachment Of Those Invaluable Privileges Is Apt To Make My Blood Boil.

Never Leave That Till Tomorrow Which You Can Do Today.

By My Rambling Digressions I Perceive Myself To Be Growing Old.

Forewarn'd, Forearm'd.

If You Have Something To Do Tomorrow, Do It Today.

A Little Sturdiness When Superiors Are Much In The Wrong Sometimes Occasions Consideration. And There Is Truth In The Old Saying That If You Make Yourself A Sheep, The Wolves Will Eat You.

Who Has Deceived Thee As Oft As Thyself.

Don't Think So Much Of Your Own Cunning, As To Forget Other Men's; A Cunning Man Is Overmatched By A Cunning Man And A Half.

A Full Belly Makes A Dull Brain: The Muses Starve In A Cook's Shop.

When The Well Is Dry, People Know The Worth Of Water. [so Appreciate What You Have While You Have It]

Freedom Is Not A Gift Bestowed Upon Us By Other Men, But A Right That Belongs To Us By The Laws Of God And Nature.

Squeamish Stomachs Cannot Eat Without Pickles.

Let Honesty And Industry Be Thy Constant Companions, And Spend One Penny Less Than Thy Clear Gains; Then Shall Thy Pocket Begin To Thrive; Creditors Will Not Insult, Nor Want Oppress, Nor Hungerness Bite, Nor Nakedness Freeze Thee

Marry Your Son When You Will, But You Daughter When You Can.

To Cease To Think Creatively Is To Cease To Live

The First Degree Of Folly, Is To Conceit One's Self Wise; The Second To Profess It; The Third To Despise Counsel.

There Was Never A Good War, Or A Bad Peace.

I Am What I Am And That's All That I Am And If I'm Supposed To Be Somebody Else, Why Do I Look Like Me?

Take Care Of The Halfpence And Pence, And The Shillings And Pounds Will Take Care Of Themselves.

All Wars Are Follies, Very Expensive And Very Mischievous Ones.

My Refusing To Eat Meat Occasioned Inconveniency, And I Have Been Frequently Chided For My Singularity. But My Light Repast Allows For Greater Progress, For Greater Clearness Of Head And Quicker Comprehension.

We Are A Kind Of Posterity In Respect To Them.

There Will Be Sleeping Enough In The Grave.

Positive Thinking

Dally Not With Other Folk's Spouses Or Money.

Those Who Laugh Often Never Grow Old.

Nothing Is So Tiresome To One's Self, As Well As So Odious To Others, As Disguise And Affectation.

It Is Much Easier To Suppress A First Desire Than To Satisfy Those That Follow.

Here Is My Creed. I Believe In One God, Creator Of The Universe. That He Governs It By His Providence. That He Ought To Be Worshiped. That The Most Acceptable Service We Render Him Is Doing Good To His Other Children. That The Soul Of Man Is Immortal, And Will Be Treated With Justice In Another Life Respecting Its Conduct In This.

The U. S. Constitution Doesn't Guarantee Happiness, Only The Pursuit Of It. You Have To Catch Up With It Yourself.

You Have Two Choices, Write About Something Of Significance Or Do Something Someone Wants To Write About.

The Generous Mind Least Regards Money, And Yet Most Feels The Want Of It.

We Should Make The Poor Uncomfortable And Kick Them Out Of Poverty.

When You Incline To Have New Clothes, Look First Well Over The Old Ones, And See If You Cannot Shift With Them Another Year, Either By Scouring, Mending, Or Even Patching If Necessary. Remember, A Patch On Your Coat, And Money In Your Pocket, Is Better And More Creditable, Than A Writ On Your Back, And No Money To Take It Off.

Historians Relate Not So Much What Is Done As What They Would Have Believed.

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources, Is To Be Cast In The Very Lap Of Fortune.

All The Heavenly Bodies, The Stars And Planets, Are Regulated With The Utmost Wisdom! And Can We Suppose Less Care To Be Taken In The Order Of The Moral Than In The Natural System?

The Longer I Live The More Convinced I Become That God Governs In The Affairs Of Men. And Have We Now Forgotten That Powerful Friend? Or Do We Imagine We No Longer Need His Assistance.

Little Boats Should Keep Near Shore

Among The Numerous Luxuries Of The Table...coffee May Be Considered As One Of The Most Valuable. It Excites Cheerfulness Without Intoxication; And The Pleasing Flow Of Spirits Which It Occasions...is Never Followed By Sadness, Languor Or Debility.

The Church, The State, And The Poor, Are 3 Daughters Which We Should Maintain, But Not Portion Off.

Who Judges Best Of A Man, His Enemies Or Himself?

Whoever Would Overthrow The Liberty Of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing The Freeness Of Speech.

Take Counsel In Wine, But Resolve Afterwards In Water.

On The Whole, Though I Never Arrived At The Perfection I Had Been So Ambitious Of Obtaining, But Fell Far Short Of It, Yet I Was, By The Endeavor, A Better And A Happier Man Than I Otherwise Should Have Been Had I Not Attempted It.

Every Accent, Every Emphasis, Every Modulation Of Voice, Was So Perfectly Well Turned And Well Placed, That, Without Being Interested In The Subject, One Could Not Help Being Pleased With The Discourse; A Pleasure Of Much The Same Kind With That Received From An Excellent Piece Of Music. This Is An Advantage Itinerant Preachers Have Over Those Who Are Stationary, As The Latter Can Not Well Improve Their Delivery Of A Sermon By So Many Rehearsals.

Getting It Done Is My Reward.

Time Management

As We Benefit From The Inventions Of Others, We Should Be Glad To Share Our Own ... Freely And Gladly.

If You Wou'd Be Reveng'd Of Your Enemy, Govern Your Self

Vice Knows [its] Ugly, So [it] Puts On [a] Mask.

Let Each New Year Find You A Better Person.

Tricks And Treachery Are The Practice Of Fools, That Don't Have Brains Enough To Be Honest.

Those Who Give Up Liberty For The Sake Of Security, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Security.

You May Give Give A Man Office, But You Cannot Give Him Discretion

What More Valuable Than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

He That Goes A Borrowing Goes A Sorrowing.

Debt By Founding Fathers

It Is Only When The Rich Are Sick That They Fully Feel The Impotence Of Wealth.

The States Acceded To The Union.

Force Shites Upon Reason's Back.

He That Pays For Work Before It's Done, Has But A Pennyworth For Two Pence.

How Can Any Action Be Meritorious Of Praise Or Dispraise, Reward Or Punishment, When The Natural Principle Of Self-love Is The Only And The Irresistible Motive To It?

Remember, That Six Pounds A Year Is But A Groat A Day.

If You Desire Many Things, Many Things Will Seem Few.

Those Who Govern, Having Much Business On Their Hands, Do Not Generally Like To Take The Trouble Of Considering And Carrying Into Execution New Projects. The Best Public Measures Are Therefore Seldom Adopted From Previous Wisdom, But Forced By The Occasion.

I Consent Sir, To This Constitution Because I Expect No Better, And Because I Am Not Sure, That It Is Not The Best.

Thinking Aloud Is A Habit Which Is Responsible For Most Of Mankind's Misery.

An Infallible Remedy For The Tooth-ach, Viz Wash The Root Of An Aching Tooth, In Elder Vinegar, And Let It Dry Half An Hour In The Sun; After Which It Will Never Ach More; Probatum Est.

The Sleeping Fox Catches No Poultry.

I Guess I Don't So Much Mind Being Old, As I Mind Being Fat And Old.

I Have Found Christian Dogma Unintelligible. Early In Life, I Absenteed Myself From Christian Assemblies.

If Pride Leads The Van, Beggary Brings Up The Rear.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.

The Strictest Law Sometimes Becomes The Severest Injustice.

Promises May Get Thee Friends, But Non-performance Will Turn Them Into Enemies.

Keeping Promises

Broken Promises

If You Can't Pay For A Thing, Don't Buy It. If You Can't Get Paid For It, Don't Sell It. Do This, And You Will Have Calm And Drowsy Nights, With All Of The Good Business You Have Now And None Of The Bad. If You Have Time, Don't Wait For Time.

We Must Not In The Course Of Public Life Expect Immediate Approbation And Immediate Grateful Acknowledgment Of Our Services. But Let Us Persevere Through Abuse And Even Injury. The Internal Satisfaction Of A Good Conscience Is Always Present, And Time Will Do Us Justice In The Minds Of The People, Even Those At Present The Most Prejudiced Against Us.

If You Would Know The Value Of Money, Go And Try To Borrow Some.

We Must, Indeed, All Hang Together Or, Most Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.

I Looked Around For God's Judgments, But Saw No Signs Of Them.

People Who Are Wrapped Up In Themselves Make Small Packages.

But The Eyes Of Other People Are The Eyes That Ruin Us. If All But Myself Were Blind, I Should Want Neither Fine Clothes, Fine Houses Nor Fine Furniture.

Laziness Travels So Slowly That Poverty Soon Overtakes It.

Flesh Eating Is Unprovoked Murder.

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