| A poem is no place for an idea. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
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| Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Parents] |
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| Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
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| No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
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| If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Friendship] |
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| Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
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| If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Laughter] |
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| The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Humankind] |
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| Another person's secret is like another person's money: you are not as careful with it as you are with your own. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Money] |
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| If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Money] |
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| No man's credit is ever as good as his money. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Money] |
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| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Advice] |
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| When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Gossip] |
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| It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Teenagers] |
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| If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Childhood] |
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| No man's credit is as good as his money. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Debt] |
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| Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Perfection] |
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| You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Forgiveness] |
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| Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Babies] |
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| Some people never have anything except ideals. |
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- Edgar Watson Howe |
more quotations on [Ideals] |
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