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A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Punctuality is the sole of business.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back