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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 suspicious parent makes an artful child. - [Parents] A temperate anger has virtue in it. - [Anger] A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy--the smile that accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby. - [Smiles] 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] Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. - [Purse] 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] Death and taxes are inevitable. - [Taxes] Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. - [Irresolution] Every woman is in the wrong until she cries, and then she is in the right instantly. - [Weeping] Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy. - [Fastidiousness] Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural. - [Partiality] 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] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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