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A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. - [Blustering] A college education shows a man how little other people know. - [Education] A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. - [Coxcomb] A man is never astonished or ashamed that he don't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. - [Ignorance] A temperate anger has virtue in it. - [Anger] A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind. - [Charity] Absurdities die of self-strangulation. - [Absurdity] An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. - [Fanaticism] As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. - [Dress] Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience. - [Obedience] Ceremony is all backbone. - [Ceremony] Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. - [Cheerfulness] Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture. - [Innocence] Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. - [Contentment] Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. - [Irresolution] Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy. - [Fastidiousness] Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ. - [Fun] Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. - [Opportunity] He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon. - [Compliments] Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both sides, and all will be clear. - [Judgment] Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. - [Hope] Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. - [Haste] If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling. - [Reproof] Impossible desires are the height of unreason. - [Impossibility] Innocence is always unsuspicious. - [Innocence] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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