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- Too mutch branes iz rather a hindrance than a help to a simply bizzness man.
- He who reads and don't reflekt, iz like the one who eats and don't exercise.
- The best reformers the world haz ever seen are thoze who commense on themselfs.
- Whi iz it that we despize the man who puts himself in our power, and are quite az apt to respekt him just in proporshun az he iz out of our reach.
- Lazy men are alwuss the most posative. They are too lazy to inform themselfs, and too lazy to change their minds.
- Genius after all ain't ennything more than elegant kommon sense.
- It takes just 3 times az long tew tell a lie, on enny subjekt, az it duz tew tell the truth.
- If you must chaw terbacker, young man, for Heaven's sake, chaw old plugg, it iz the nastyest.
- Free living leads tew free thinking, free thinking leads tew free loveing, and free loveing leads to the devil.
- Cheerful old girls, are the bridesmaids ov sosiety.
- Angels handle the dice when doublets are thrown in the cradle.
- Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites more wonder than a star in the heavans.
- Blood ain't nothing, munny and clothes iz what tells.
- Put not oph till to-morrow what can be enjoyed to-day.
- Awl plezzures are lawful that don't end in making us feel sorry.
- I have made a kluss kalkulashun on it, and i find that there aint more than 3 men, now on earth, nor never haint been, who kan kultivate an excentricity with suckcess.
- I am satisfied thare is more imaginary trouble in this world than real.
- Thare are but dredful phew people who kan talk ten minnits tew yu without lugging into the conversashun their bak or stummuk akes.
- About the best that enny ov us kan do iz tew konceal our phailings.
- The man who never makes enny blunders seldum makes enny good hits.
- It takes a smart man to conceal from others what he don't kno.
- Hunger iz a slut hound on a fresh track.
- Wize men go thru this world az boys go tew bed in the dark, whistling tew shorten the distance.
- All the good injuns die young.
- A fault concealed iz but little better than one indulged in.
- Woman haz no friendships. She either loves, despises, or hates.