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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Topic: Baby
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A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Topic: Bargain
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... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Topic: Bargain
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Topic: Beauty
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Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
Topic: Behavior
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The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
Topic: Behavior
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About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
Topic: Birth
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Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Topic: Borrowing
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Topic: Boys
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There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Topic: Boys
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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Topic: Busyness
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Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
Topic: Busyness
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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Topic: Decisions
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Topic: Dishonesty
Source: None
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There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
Topic: Gossip
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Topic: Guest
Source: None
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Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
Topic: Husbands
Source: None
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Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
Topic: Inflation
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Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Topic: Laziness
Source: None
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I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Source: None
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It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Topic: Loss
Source: None
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Topic: Men
Source: None
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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Topic: Optimism
Source: None
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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Topic: Peace
Source: None
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Topic: Peace
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Topic: Perseverance
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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Topic: Public Speaking
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Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
Topic: Quiet
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It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.
Topic: Resignation
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Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
Topic: Rest
Source: None
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
Topic: Society
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Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Topic: Thoughts
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
Topic: Vacation
Source: None
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We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.
Topic: Vote
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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Topic: Wife
Source: None
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The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.
Topic: World
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The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
Topic: Wrong
Source: None
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