George Horace Lorimer - Letters from a self-made merchant to his son (1901)

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If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

George Horace Lorimer
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

George Horace Lorimer
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

George Horace Lorimer
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

George Horace Lorimer
A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

George Horace Lorimer
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

George Horace Lorimer
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

George Horace Lorimer
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

George Horace Lorimer
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

George Horace Lorimer