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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

One never knows what difference anything will make until the difference is made.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

The wages of sin is alimony.

By the way, remember that, all of you. On no account go up to the fourth floor.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.

A fool and his money are soon married.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Since you have a choice between life and death, why not choose life and live.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

Every dogma must have its day.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Reward is its own virtue.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!

Society's the mother of convention.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

The way to do some things is to do them.

Actions lie louder than words.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy

Of two evils choose the prettier.