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Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

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Kin Hubbard
Age: 62 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 1
Died: 1930
Died: December 26
Cartoonist
Humorist
Journalist
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Frank McKinney Hubbard
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Pocket
Flattery
Compliment
Pockets
Folks
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Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
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Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
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It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
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Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.
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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
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One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
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No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
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I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.
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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
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All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten' it would be greatly simplified
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Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done
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