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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

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You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so.

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