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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth
is
putting on its
s
hoes
.
Agains
t the as
s
ault of laughter nothing can s
tand.
Always
do
right.
This
will gratify s
ome people and as
tonis
h the res
t.
Be careful in your dres
s
if you will, but keep a tidy s
oul.
Better a broken promis
e than none at all.
By
trying we can eas
ily endure advers
ity.
Another mans
, I mean.
Clothes
make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on s
ociety.
Courage is
res
is
tance to fear,
mas
tery of fear, not abs
ence of fear.
Education cons
is
ts
mainly of what we have
unlearned.
Everything has
its
limit iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Familiarity breeds
contempt and children.
Few things
are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
He is
now ris
ing from affluence to poverty.
He
is
us
eles
s
on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, ins
piring the cabbages
.
Hones
ty is
the bes
t policy when there is
money in it.
I have made a rule never to
s
moke more than one cigar at a time.
In the firs
t place, God made idiots
.
That was
for practice.
Then he made s
chool boards
.
It is
better to des
erve honors
and not
have them than to have them and not des
erve them.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never
yet broke a chain or freed a human s
oul.
Man a creature made at the end of the
weeks
work when God was
tired.
Man is
the only creature that blus
hes
or needs
to.
Man was
made at the end of the weeks
work when God was
tired.
Man will do many
things
to get hims
elf loved, he will do all things
to get hims
elf envied.
Many a
s
mall thing has
been made large by the right kind of advertis
ing.
Martyrdom covers
a
multitude of s
ins
.
Neces
s
ity is
the mother of taking chances
.
Nothing s
o needs
reforming as
other peoples
habits
.
One of the mos
t s
triking differences
between a
cat and a lie is
that a cat has
only nine lives
.
Principles
have no real force
except when one is
well-fed.
Pros
perity is
the bes
t protector of principle.
Such is
the human race, often it s
eems
a pity that Noahdidnt mis
s
the boat.
Suppos
e you
were an idiot, and s
uppos
e you were a member of Congres
s
; but I repeat mys
elf.
The
more things
are forbidden, the more popular they become.
The reports
of my death
have been greatly exaggerated.
The s
ecret s
ource of humor is
not joy but s
orrow;
there is
no humor in Heaven.
The very ink with which all his
tory is
written is
merely fluid prejudice.
There are s
everal good protections
agains
t temptation, but
the s
ures
t is
cowardice.
There is
no s
adder s
ight than a young pes
s
imis
t.
Thunder is
good, thunder is
impres
s
ive; but it is
lightning that does
all the work.
To be good
is
noble; but to s
how others
how to be good is
nobler and no trouble.
Truth is
the
mos
t valuable thing we have.
Let us
economize it.
When angry, count to four; when
very angry, s
wear.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
When red-haired people are above a
certain s
ocial grade, their hair is
auburn.
When we remember we are all mad, the
mys
teries
dis
appear and life s
tands
explained.
When you fis
h for love, bait with
your heart, not your brain.
Wrinkles
s
hould merely indicate where s
miles
have been.