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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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