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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
A thief believes everybody steals.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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