Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
From Josh Billings
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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