Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
KIN HUBBARDWhen some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
More Kin Hubbard Quotes
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“Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speechmaker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? “
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Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
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Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn’t do when he was young.
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In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.
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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God’s path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony.
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Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.
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Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
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A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
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One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
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Knowin’ all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein’ a good whittler.
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There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it’s so crowded.
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