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A man who gets bit twice by the same dog learns to be more careful in that line of work. Billings jokes that a right man can’t be too radical, while a wrong one can’t be too conservative. He also warns that debt is a trap we set for ourselves and that believing false ideas makes us foolish.

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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

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A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.

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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

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True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

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Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

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When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

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Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it…

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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise…

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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of…

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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

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It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite…

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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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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are…

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What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat…

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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

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A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

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

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Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

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A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

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When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

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Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

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The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

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If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

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It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

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Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now,…

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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of…

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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

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

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

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

Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Perseverance is king.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never…

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.