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- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
- Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
- The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
- Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
- It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
- No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
- Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
- The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
- There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.
- Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
- Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
- Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
- It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
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