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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love you...  
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the ...  
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associat...  
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestl...   Art
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the...  
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to ...  
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the dem...  
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hote...  
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.  
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.  
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing thin...  
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them t...  
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to ...  
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it;...  
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollar...  
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting th...  
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.  
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.   Intelligence
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the hones...  
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the seco...  
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkabl...  
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impude...  
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay ...  
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would hav...  
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could...  
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did no...  
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the...  
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.  
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to rep...  
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got...  
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the mos...  
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.  
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it prin...  
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wid...  
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold ...   Life
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ru...  
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see ...  
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can...   Marriage
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.  
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as ...  
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own o...  
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.  
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickne...  
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he ca...  
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.  
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.  
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.  
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun liv...  
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it a...  
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you mus...  
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have hi...  
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on th...  
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the ...  
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it wi...  
The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing s...  
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know...  
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.   Business
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memor...  
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell...  
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions an...  
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Tw...  
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surpr...  
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.   Forgiveness
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to...   Experience
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them to...  
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching ...  
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the mise...  
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself ...  
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wa...  
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.  
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hun...   Art