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Show No man becomes well-to-do quicker thun the man who Is hard-to-do. A prophet is without hoaor In his own country, but a profiteer is almost sure to get one. Ninety per cent of the flattery in this werld Is expended on gravestenes. nnd the rest on women. The fit of a small boy's trousers depends de-pends upon the size of the pocket. Just because a man says nothing be isn't necessarily a sawer of wood. No real hustler would give 2 cents for the things that come to those who wait Few sins would be so popular If they were not so strenuously preached against. A street cv runs twice as fast when a man Is trying to catch It as It does when he Is riding In It. It takes a hundred cents to make a dollar, but It takes core than a dollar's dol-lar's worth of sense to make a man. We often wonder why the man who Is always boasting ot the splendid positions offered Mm continues to hold down a small .lob. WORTH REMEMBERING A pessimist Is one who, of two evils, chooses both. Blunt people often manage to pu: others on edge. j Self-importance docsp't belp yoi to become Important. Sooner or later some airman will double-cross the ocean. It's what we learn after we think we know It all tlmt counts. A sense of humor Is the sugar that takes the bitterness out of life. If you get all your knowledge out of books you may as well leave tt there. Some people go through life with the fixed Men that it Is easier to surrender sur-render than to sfnit'l- |