Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

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Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

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First dentistry was painless.

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He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

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Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

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So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

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Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

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Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

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When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

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Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

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In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

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It takes a bee to get the honey out

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When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

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Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

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What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

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No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

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The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

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Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

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For the young Gaels of Ireland

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God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

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Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

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