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• The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted.

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  Wife, Funny Marriage, Fellows

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• When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.

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  Mean, Names, Wish

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• No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

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  Sick, Pet, Literature

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• A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

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  Marriage, Girl, Long

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• None but the brave can live with the fair.

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  Brave, Attractiveness, Fairs

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• Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

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  Thinking, Bees, Buzz

  "Reading I've Liked : A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing, Presented with an Informal Prologue and Various Commentaries". Book by Clifton Fadiman, 1941.

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• You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

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  Ruts, Ifs

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• Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

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  Work, Men, He Man

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• If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.

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  Firsts, Succeed, Chance

  Kin Hubbard (1914). “Back Country Folks”

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• I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

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  Cost, Want, Heard

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• The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

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  Select

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• Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.

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  Home, Thinking, Borrowing

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

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  Literature, Applause, Kicks

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• Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

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  Government, Years, Editors

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• Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

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  People, Recognition, Folks

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• It's the good loser who finally loses out.

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  Literature, Losing, Loser

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• It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

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  Might, Poverty, Poor

  "Short Furrows" (1911)

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• It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.

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  Sex, Thinking, Differences

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• We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

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  Children, Tears, Want

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• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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  Beauty, Witty, Women

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

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  Ignorance, Bliss, Neighbor

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• Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

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  Monday, Sunday, Remember

  Kin Hubbard (1923). “Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors: And Several More Or Less Helpful Essays Bearing Directly on a Variety of Important Matters”

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• About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

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  People, Favors, Birth

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• Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

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  Daughter, Worry, Parent

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• Politics makes strange post-masters.

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  Political, Politics, Strange

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