George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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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.
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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
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Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not
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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.
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When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
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It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
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Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
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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.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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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.
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Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
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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.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
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And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
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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.
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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.
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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
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A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
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