My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to read more
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
You are not in business to be popular.
You are not in business to be popular.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack read more
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
