George D. Prentice Quotes

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

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  Kindness, Vain, Words Of Kindness

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• There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

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  Rainbow, Realms, Fades

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

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  Men, Long, Intelligence

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

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  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

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  Father, Political, Speech

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• We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

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  Tolerance, Favors, Impossible

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• It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

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  Life, Men, Half

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• It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

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  Mistake, People, Sincerity

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• Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

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  Men, Light, Giving

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• Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

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  Joy, Satisfaction, Possession

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• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

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  Self, Possession, Earthly Possessions

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• Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

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  Thinking, Profound, Seems

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

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  New York, Twilight, Cities

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• A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

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  Funny, Dental Work, Looks

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• Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

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  Smoking, Tobacco

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• A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

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  Funny, Dog, Animal

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• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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  Debt Free, People, Use

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• A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

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  Pins, Deals

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• Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

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  Writing, Editing, Punctuation

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• Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

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  Time, Heart, Glasses

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• Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

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  Time, Sleep, Night

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• Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

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  Men, Beats, Hard

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• Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
  Another year has burst upon the shore
  Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
  Wandering in broken accents in the air,
  Are dying to an echo.

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  Time, Echoes, Air

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• The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

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  War, Air, Rivers

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