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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
[ Animals ]
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
[ Places ]
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
[ Happiness ]
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
[ Advice ]
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
[ Debt ]
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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
[ Marriage ]
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
[ Success ]
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
[ Truth ]
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
[ Mother-in-Laws ]
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
[ Common Sense ]
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
[ Pleasure ]
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
[ Procrastination ]
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
[ Control ]
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
[ Experience ]
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
[ Experience ]
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
[ Flattery ]
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
[ Age and Aging ]
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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
[ Knowledge ]
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
[ Incredulity ]
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
[ Wealth ]
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
[ Attitude ]
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
[ Self discovery ]
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
[ Knowledge ]
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
[ Life and Living ]
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
[ Life and Living ]
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
[ Men and Women ]
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
[ Repentance ]
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
[ Music ]
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
[ Debt ]
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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
[ Work ]
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
[ Scandal ]
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
[ Quality ]
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
[ Pity ]
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
[ Conscience ]
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
[ Silence ]
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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
[ Wisdom ]
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
[ Medicine ]
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
[ Self-control ]
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
[ Anxiety ]
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
[ Knowledge ]
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The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
[ Uncategorised ]
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
[ Exaggeration ]
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