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- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
- Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
- Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
- If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
- Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
- It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
- I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
- Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike.
- I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
- When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
- I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call…
- The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking…
- Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
- Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
- One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
- Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than…
- Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.
- I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
- A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
- When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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