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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.