George Dennison Prentice
Quotes by George Dennison Prentice
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Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
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When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
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He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
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Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
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A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
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Some things are better eschewed than chewed, tobacco is one of them.
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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
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