George D. Prentice Quotes - Page 2

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• Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Order

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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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• Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

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  Prejudice, Twins

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• A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

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  Men, Good Man, Secret

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• If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

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  Sleep, Angel, Waking

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• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

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  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

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  Loss, Names, Weight

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• A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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  Truth, Naked, Assertion

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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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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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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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• 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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• He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

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  Firsts, Wit, Composure

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• Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

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  Habit, Fortresses, Proportion

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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

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  Men, Hair, Rude

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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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