It’s cheaper to buy your coal from your regular dealer and take short weight, than to steal it from the railroad and pay court costs.
It’s an ice cold fact that the fellow who is continually condemning others’ faults and pointing with pride to his own great meritable achievements, is not entitled to a premium for sincerity.
It’s often the sour, surly looking man that goes down in his pocket and gives you his last quarter, when hunger is beating a fast tattoo against your breastworks.
Because a man joins the church and becomes a pious and strict respecter of Sunday observance, don’t cast all caution aside and let him sell you gold mine stock on Monday, unless you know something about the mine.
Some men tell you the wonderful things they have done from the corner store dry goods box and then let their wives earn the living over the wash tub.