I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.


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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til...
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
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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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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
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