Did Benjamin Franklin really say 'The sleeping fox catches no poultry.'?

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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern · Electricity experiments, founding father

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"No gains without pains."

"The way to be safe, is never to be secure."

"If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself."

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

"Nothing is certain except death and taxes."

Poor Richard's Almanack

Date: 1734

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