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In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

Politics makes strange post-masters.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

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: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.