It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

George Horace Lorimer

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

George Horace Lorimer

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It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

George Horace Lorimer

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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

George Horace Lorimer

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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

George Horace Lorimer

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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

George Horace Lorimer

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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

George Horace Lorimer

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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

George Horace Lorimer

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If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

George Horace Lorimer

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When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

George Horace Lorimer

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I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

George Horace Lorimer

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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

George Horace Lorimer

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There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

George Horace Lorimer

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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

George Horace Lorimer

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As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

George Horace Lorimer

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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

George Horace Lorimer

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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

George Horace Lorimer

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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

George Horace Lorimer

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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

George Horace Lorimer

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A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

George Horace Lorimer

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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

George Horace Lorimer

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