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We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard consider her ways and get wise.
Franklin P. Adams
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Franklin P. Adams
Age: 78 †
Born: 1881
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: March 23
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If, my dear, you seek to slumber Count of stars an endless number If you will continue wakeful Count the drops that make a lakeful Then if vigilance yet above you Hover, Count the times I love you And if slumber sill repel you Count the times I do not tell you.
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I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
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There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
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Christmas is over and Business is Business.
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An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
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