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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Henry Ward Beecher

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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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