If only the world were full of truth, things would be better.


Josh Childers

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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
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There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
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