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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
George D. Prentice
2.
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
George D. Prentice
3.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George D. Prentice
4.
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
George D. Prentice
5.
There is a realm where the rainbow never fades
George D. Prentice
6.
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
George D. Prentice
7.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George D. Prentice
8.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
George D. Prentice
9.
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
George D. Prentice
10.
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
George D. Prentice
11.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
George D. Prentice
12.
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
George D. Prentice
13.
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
George D. Prentice
14.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
George D. Prentice
15.
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
George D. Prentice
16.
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George D. Prentice
17.
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
George D. Prentice
18.
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.
George D. Prentice
19.
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
George D. Prentice
20.
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
George D. Prentice
21.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
22.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
George D. Prentice
23.
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
George D. Prentice
24.
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
George D. Prentice
25.
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
George D. Prentice
26.
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.
George D. Prentice
27.
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
George D. Prentice
28.
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
29.
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
George D. Prentice
30.
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
George D. Prentice
31.
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!
George D. Prentice
32.
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.
George D. Prentice
33.
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
George D. Prentice
34.
Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.
George D. Prentice
35.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
George D. Prentice
36.
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
George D. Prentice
37.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
George D. Prentice
38.
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
George D. Prentice
39.
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
George D. Prentice
40.
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
George D. Prentice
41.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
George D. Prentice
