WednesdaySep 16, 2026
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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
The weaker the man in authority, the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
All things come to him who waits even justice.
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
An Englishman thinks, seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.
Truth lives in the cellar; error on the doorstep.
Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it.
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