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“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”
“The most destructive criticism is indifference.”
“A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.”
“The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.”
“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.”
“Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.”
“If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.”
“Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.”
“Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.”
“A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.”
“If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.”
“The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.”
“A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.”
“The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.”
“When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.”
“When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.”
“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.”
“There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.”
“Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.”
“If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.”