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If we devoted as much attention to our own affairs as we freely give to those of others, we and others would be gainers.

Merit, like the show inside a circus, is of comparatively little use as a drawing card; it is the bluff and buncombe the banging drum and megaphone of the barker which is the successful magnet.

We always know what we should do under certain circumstances, but unfortunately we never find circumstances arranged so as to suit what we do.

An over sensitive conscience is simply the evidence of spiritual dyspepsia. The man who has it is no better than his fellows.

Generosity, as commonly understood, consists in forcing upon others that for which one has no use.

There is a greater difference between really thinking and only thinking that we think than most of us think.

We rashly demand that the devil shall have his due, forgetting that if that gentleman gets all that is coming to him it will go badly with some of us.

If women knew themselves as well as they know men—and if men knew women as well as they know themselves—things would be very much as they are.

Before he knows a woman a man often thinks her an angel; when he knows her he knows—er—better.

A critic is one who knows perfectly well how a thing should be done, but is unable to do it. Therefore we are all the keenest critics in matters of which we know least.

From all enemies and most friends, good Lord, deliver us!

Everything comes to the man who waits

but that is no inducement to wait—for no man wants everything.

He usually wants one thing in particular—just that one which he never gets, no matter how long he waits.

When a man has drained the dregs of the bitterness of life, hope and fear no longer exist in him, only indifference which produces stupefaction.

Forbidden fruit has no attraction until we know that it is forbidden.

A man can be judged from the theatres he frequents and the ladies who accompany him there.

Criticism grows faint in the presence of successful achievement.

A man may confess that his judgment was at fault, but

never that his intentions were other than strictly honorable.