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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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Always remember that if a man knows where he can make a dollar, he will not tell you about it; he will go after it himself.
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As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.
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A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.
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A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can "talk" about him.
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Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing — but we all do and call it Hope.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
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Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
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The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
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A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
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A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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E. W. Howe
Born:
May 3, 1853
Died:
October 3, 1937
(aged 84)
Bio:
Edgar Watson Howe, sometimes referred to as E. W. Howe, was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly.
Known for:
The mystery of The Locks (1885)
Ventures in Common Sense (1919)
Country town sayings (1911)
The blessing of business (1918)
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