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What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
George Horace Lorimer -
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
George Horace Lorimer
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
George Horace Lorimer -
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
George Horace Lorimer -
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 -
There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
George Horace Lorimer -
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
George Horace Lorimer -
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.
George Horace Lorimer
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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.
George Horace Lorimer -
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
George Horace Lorimer -
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
George Horace Lorimer -
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
George Horace Lorimer -
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.
George Horace Lorimer -
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.
George Horace Lorimer
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
George Horace Lorimer -
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 -
Give fools the first and women the last word.
George Horace Lorimer -
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
George Horace Lorimer -
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 -
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
George Horace Lorimer
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
George Horace Lorimer -
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
George Horace Lorimer -
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
George Horace Lorimer -
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
George Horace Lorimer