Cunning iz very apt tew outwit itself. The man who turned the boat over and got under it tew keep out ov the rain, waz one ov this kind.
A weak constitushun kan be strengthened, but a weak set ov branes kan’t.
Vanity iz a strange pashun—rather than be out ov a job it will brag ov its vices.
All phools are poor listeners.
About all it takes tew make a wize man iz tew giv other people’s opinyuns az mutch weight as we do our own.
Flattery iz like ice-kream—to relish good we want it a little at a time, and often.
The more yu praze a man who don’t deserve it, the more yu abuze him.
Yu kan’t flatter a truly wize man—he knows just how mutch praze iz due him; that he takes, and charges over all the ballance tew the proffit and loss ackount.
Once in a grate while Fortune will acktualy hunt for a man, but generally thoze who are favoured with her smiles hav tew woo them.
Thare seems tew be a degree of excentricity attending all, and yu will notiss this, that while the excentricitys ov a clown are quite often pleasant, the excentricitys ov a grate man are most always disagreeable.