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George Dennison Prentice
American
Editor
About the author
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Heart
#Man
#Pretty
#Lady
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#People
#Debt
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Truth
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#People
#Man
#Pen
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Word
#Kindness
#Pearls
#sayings
#Witty
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Hope
#Will
#World
#Man
#Direction
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Men
#Swine
#Smoking
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#People
#Children
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Men
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
George Dennison Prentice,
American
Editor
#Friend
#Worth