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  • Milya Tabarovahas quoted2 years ago
    such material as serves to illustrate some easily recognizable human trait.
    It is almost needless to say that this book should not be read continuously. It should be taken in small doses, as it is
  • b9000542659has quoted3 years ago
    An old colored man charged with stealing chickens was arraigned in court and was incriminating himself when the judge said:
  • hannahmk66has quoted3 years ago
    LIFE'S ETERNAL QUERY
    Did it ever occur to you that a man's life is full of cussedness? He comes into the world without his consent, and goes out against his will, and the trip between is exceedingly rocky.

    When he is little, the big girls kiss him; when he is big, the little girls kiss him. If he is poor, he is a bad manager; if he is rich, he's a crook. If he is prosperous, everybody wants to do him a favor; if he needs credit, they hand him a lemon.

    If he is in politics, it is for graft; if out of politics, he is no good to his country. If he doesn't give to charity, he's a tightwad; if he does, it's for show. If he is actively religious, he is a hypocrite; and if he takes no interest in religion, he is a heathen.

    If he is affectionate, he is a soft mark; if he cares for no one, he is cold-blooded. If he dies young, there was a great future for him; if he lives to an old age, he missed his calling.

    If you don't fight, you're yellow; if you do, you're a brute.

    If you save your money, you're a grouch; if you spend it, you're a loafer; if you get it, you're a grafter, and if you don't get it, you're a bum.

    So what's the use?
  • Нелли Синявинаhas quoted4 years ago
    THE POINT OF HONOR
  • Patinya Boonnanhas quoted4 years ago
    GREAT RELIEF IN HEAVEN
  • Patinya Boonnanhas quoted4 years ago
    HE WAS BROAD MINDED
  • Patinya Boonnanhas quoted4 years ago
    Vell, you pay me four tollars a veek—'
  • Laís de Araújohas quoted4 years ago
    Or intimate acquaintance with certain phases of life gives us a subtler appreciation of certain niceties, which would be lost upon those who have not traveled over that particular path.
  • Khaa Liidhas quoted4 years ago
    the most discriminating critics
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted4 years ago
    "The motive of the mithcreant doubtleth wath revenge for thome thuppothed inthult.

    "It thall never be thaid that the petty thpite of any thmall-thouled villain hath dithabled the Newth, and if thith meet the eye of the detethtable rathcal, we beg to athure him that he underethtimated the rethourceth of a firtht-clath newthpaper when he thinkth he can cripple it hopelethly by breaking into the alphabet. We take occathion to thay to him furthermore that before next Thurthday we thall have three timeth ath many etheth ath he thtole.

    "We have reathon to thuthpect that we know the cowardly thkunk who committed thith act of vandalithm, and if he ith ever theen prowling about thith ethtablithment again, by day or by night, nothing will give uth more thatithfaction than to thoot hith hide full of holeth."
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