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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Nature's bank-dividends.
Ceremony is all backbone.
Circumstances alter cases.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Just what part of meow don't you understand?
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
