September 30, 2006
The Gentle Cynic c. 1906

From the Sept. 30, 1906 NYT:

  • The flatterer is never a bore.
  • Only the rich can afford to be stingy.
  • Good resolutions too often die of malnutrition.
  • At any rate, the loser is never accused of cheating.
  • Only a fool will rock the boat on the sea of matrimony.
  • Faith may move mountains, but it won't remove freckles.
  • Most troubles are not worth the time it takes to tell them.
  • Success is often the result of a one-card draw in the game of life.
  • When a man takes whisky for a cold he doesn't care whether he gets over it or not.
  • The man who makes his money in trade is sneered at by the man who makes his by marrying it.
  • The fellow who is imbued with the idea that the world owes him a living can get it in the penitentiary.
  • Posted by Craig Depken at 11:39 AM in Culture

    The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it. -Adam Smith

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