Top 31 George D. Prentice Quotes
#1. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
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#2. Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
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#3. It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
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#4. A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
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#5. We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
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#6. The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
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#7. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
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#9. When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
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#11. Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
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#13. Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
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#14. It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
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#15. Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
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#16. Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
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#17. Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
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#18. In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
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#19. What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
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#20. Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
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#21. Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
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#22. Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
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#23. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
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#24. It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
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#27. Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
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#28. Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,
what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!
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#29. A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
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#30. If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
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#31. A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
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