A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
Every fellow is really two men- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
There are two unpardonable sins in this world-- success and failure.
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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