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• The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

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  Travel, Journey, Three

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

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  Leadership, Sports, Food

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

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  Men, Important, Modern Life

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

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  People, Bed, Modern Life

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• Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

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  Trying, Moral, Accounts

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

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  Selfish, Drinking, Pride

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

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  Teacher, Art, Bridges

  "Ade's Fables". Book by George Ade, 1914.

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• I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

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  Tired, Style, Different

  George Ade (1973). “Letters of George Ade”

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• The only city people are those born so.

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  Cities, People, Born

  George Ade (1914). “Ade's fables”

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• For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

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  Life, Communication, Vagueness

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”, p.44, Library of Alexandria

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• Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

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  Hygiene, Literature, Should

  "Fables in Slang".

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• Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

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  Nurse, Cupid

  George Ade (1914). “Ade's Fables”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

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  Party, Agreement, Signatures

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

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  Men

  George Ade, Booth Tarkington (1944). “George Ade, 1866 - 1944: memorial issue; final tributes to "the great American humorist"”

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