It iz the little things ov this life that plague us--

Muskeeters are plenty, elephants skarse.

What an agreeable world this would be tew liv in if we could pump all

the pride and selfishness out ov it! It would improve it az much az

taking the fire and brimstun out ov the other world.

Don't mistake plezzure for happiness; it iz entirely a different breed

ov dogs. Thare is a grate deal ov exquisitt plezzure in happiness, but

thare iz a grate deal ov plezzure that haz no happiness in it.

Thare iz only one thing that i kan think ov now, that i like to see

idleness in, and that iz, in mollassiss--i want mi mollassiss slo and

eazy.

Experience haz the same effekt on most folks that age haz on a goose, it

makes them tuffer.

"_Sewing Sosietys_," are generally places whare the wimmin meet to rip

and so--up the naberhood.

A lazy man iz one who haz no time to spare; an industrious man iz one

who haz more time to spare than he knows what to do with.

It takes a smart man to conceal from others what he don't kno.

A lazy man alwus works harder than a bizzy one--the hardest work i kno

ov, iz to grunt--it iz harder tew set still, and fite flies, than it iz

tew git up and escape from them.

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