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Marrying for beauty is a poor speculation, for any man who sees your wife, has got just about as much stock in her as you have.

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There is a great deal of charity in this world so coldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it is like lifting a drowning man out of the water by the hair of the head, and then letting him drop on the ground.

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Every man should know something of law—if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

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A lazy man is one who has no time to spare; an industrious man is one who has more time to spare than he knows what to do with.

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When I see a poor, and proud aristocrat, particular about punctilio, he always puts me in mind of a drunken man, trying to walk a crack.

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I don't believe in bad luck being set for a man, like a trap, but i have known lots of folks, who if there was any first rate bad luck lying around loose, would be sure to get one foot in it anyhow.

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training does on the pugilist—it reduces him to his fighting weight.

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Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog, silently and taillessly, becomes a frog, but man can't even deliver a small-sized 4th of July oration without knocking down a mountain or two, and taring up three or four primeval forests by the bleeding roots.

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Misanthropy don't pay—thare aint no man living whoze hate the world cares one cuss for.

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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When a man starts down hill everything is greased for the occasion.

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Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.

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Poor human nature is too full of its own grievances to have any pity to spare, — if you show a man a big bile on your arm, he will tell you he had one twice as big as that, on the same spot, last year.

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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

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I wouldn't undertake to correct a man's sectarian views any quicker than I would tell him which road to take at a 4 corners, when I didn't know myself which was the right one.

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