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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.

With renunciation life begins.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.