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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

George Horace Lorimer

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George Horace Lorimer
Age: 70 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 6
Died: 1937
Died: October 22
Journalist
Louisville
Kentucky
World
Bright
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Wrong
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Right
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
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Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
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There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity tomorrow some other fellow's.
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When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
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You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.
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