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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

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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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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

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To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

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A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

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Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

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Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do.

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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

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No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.

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A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

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A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

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Some people never have anything except ideals.

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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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No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

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Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

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It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

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At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

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Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

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The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

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Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

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The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

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Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

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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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Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

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As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

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Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

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An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

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I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

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If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

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Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.

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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

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Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

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One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

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Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

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You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

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A poem is no place for an idea.

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Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

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There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

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If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

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One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

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About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

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Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

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