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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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"Life is as fair as you perceive it to be."

"Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly."

"The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune."

"Count your summers, not your winters."

"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."

"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."

"Money promises more than it delivers, love delivers more than it promises."

"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."

"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"

"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows."

"Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need."

"If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite."

"I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare-or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad-who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping."

"As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again."
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