Wise or Otherwise | Page 7

epitome of obsolete ideas and living force.
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A bleating lamb in a great city is in greater danger than in the darkest wood.
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There be three birds.
One lives only in the highest altitudes.
This bird is Truth.
One lives on the plain.
This bird is Expediency.
One lives in the mire.
This bird is Subserviency.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the first bird will not be listened to for ages to come.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the second bird will receive the plaudits of the people.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the third bird will be worshipped by the mob.
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Not gold, not broad acres, not vast power, not blazoned titles, not eloquence, but truth is the lever which moves the world.
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When Europe completes the process of Christianizing China that nation will have disappeared from the map.
The truth-seeker never digs in the columns of the political newspaper.
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A money shaver with a conscience would soon be poorer than his clients.
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I have read of the dog-like affection of woman--I have seen their cat-like characteristics.
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Bread snatched from the poor becomes a stone in the rich man's belly. He has only to eat his fill to sink.
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What a gas lamp is to a moth, the same is a rose diamond to a woman--neither see the danger till they are dead.
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In olden times Sodom and Gomorrah swallowed up the wicked. In modern times Chicago swallows up the good.
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Chinaman's soliloquy. "First come missionary, big prayers, little book. Singee 'Peace on earth and good willee to all men.' Russian Bear swallow Manchuria, French Eagle strippe off Yellow Jacket, Bille Emperor stealee Peacock Feather, English Lion grabbe Pig Tail. Damme, hungry lion want everything."
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Slander is more subtile than any microbe.
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You cannot squander ten thousand a year and then balance the account by thrusting a stale bun, dipped in charity soup, into a beggar's hand.
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Lolling on a velvet cushion in a fashionable church will not be a valid answer when you meet the poor girl 'beyond' whom you ground down to make trousers for twenty cents a pair. You didn't do it? You wore the trousers, it's all the same.
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A cynic's description of the honeymoon--
Kisses allopathic. Kisses homeopathic. The cold douche. Hot mustard plasters.
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A lawyer's description of matrimony in the United States--
Court--Appeal. The suit filed. Rival--an interpleader. Marriage. Judgement given. Household expenses. Costs. Family jars. Proceedings for alimony. Final hearing. Divorce absolute. Quit claim. Deed to another man.
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The sea-side resorts attract many queer fish.
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The politician is what the people make him.
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The child which cries for bread is a menace to the state.
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Infamy may rise to such a height as to become famous.
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More women have been killed by innuendo than by hard work.
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To the small boy a circus is more alluring than the Psalms of Solomon.
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Eternity is an endless chain whose links are youth, old age and decay.
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The shark turns on his back to devour his prey--the hypocrite prays that he may devour.
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The money lender should provide himself with an asbestos overcoat when he leaves this world.
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Every girl in store or office means a man without employment. Every man without employment is a man incapable of supporting a wife. Do you see the inevitable result?
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Laughter is the doctor's deadliest enemy.
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Praise is the cheapest coin but more potent than gold.
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If all men were brothers nations would cease to exist.
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Years are required to make a brutal man--hours, a woman.
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We praise God for our victories. What does the other fellow do?
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Patriotism is but another name for, 'love yourself and hate your neighbors.'
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If churches were made as attractive as gin palaces, the former, not the latter, would be open six days in the week.
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When you get there, you will find that Eternal Justice is not built on the departmental store system. Some pale-faced girl will offer the evidence.
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Once Pity and Charity perched on every cloistered gate and cried, 'welcome.' Now they only venture forth on public occasions, when they will be seen of all men.
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