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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.