In great action, men show themselves as they ought to be, in small action as they are.
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Sweep the dirt from in front of your own door, and don't worry about your neighbour's.
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Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling.
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A physician is also a man who pours special drugs into lots of bodies he rarely loves.
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It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them.
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A little bit of powder and a little bit of paint make a woman look like what she ain't.
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Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of your widow's next husband.
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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
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When you buy friends with anything other than friendship, they do not stay bought long.
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Candour once went further boldly and in smiles, but it crept home in tatters and tears.
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If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
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An adult is only one who has ceased to grow vertically and started to grow horizontally.
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Naught's a naught and figger's a figger - all for the white man and none for the nigger.
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Criticism is something you can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
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The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keeps his friends in countenance.
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From beavers, bees should learn to mend their ways. A bee works; a beaver works and plays.
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If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
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In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.
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