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| Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. | [▲] | [▼] |
| In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? | [▲] | [▼] |
| Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. | [▲] | [▼] |
| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. | [▲] | [▼] |
| We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. | [▲] | [▼] |
| When in doubt tell the truth. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. | [▲] | [▼] |
| We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it, and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to. | [▲] | [▼] |
| We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. | [▲] | [▼] |
| If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. | [▲] | [▼] |