The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
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An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you dont. Its knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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