Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Your mothers get mighty ...
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
