George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
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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.
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
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Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
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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.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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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.
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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
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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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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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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
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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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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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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.
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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.