It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.Īdvice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.Ĭommon sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Ĭommon sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.įamiliarity breeds contempt – and children. It is not observed in history that families improve with time. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. They are, for the time being, separate from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. What maintains one Vice would bring up two children. They drink with impunity or with anybody who invites them.Īlcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts. WHEAT: A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread.īeer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. RUM: Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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