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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.