John Kendrick Bangs Quotes

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• Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
• What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
• I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that…
• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in…
• I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
• Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
• Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths…
• Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy…
• A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed…
• I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each…
• You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it…
• Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love…
• The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I…
• If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength…

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