George D. Prentice Quotes

• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

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  Kindness, Vain, Words Of Kindness

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• There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

  George D. Prentice

  Rainbow, Realms, Fades

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• It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

  George D. Prentice

  Mistake, People, Sincerity

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

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  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

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  Self, Possession, Earthly Possessions

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• Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

  George D. Prentice

  Thinking, Profound, Seems

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• A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

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  Father, Political, Speech

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• We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

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  Tolerance, Favors, Impossible

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• La fealdad de algunos hombres es difícil de superar.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Beats, Hard

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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• Una palabra de amabilidad rara vez se dice en vano, mientras que los dichos ingeniosos se pierden tan fácilmente como las perlas que resbalan de un cordel roto.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

  George D. Prentice

  Children, People, Has Beens

  "Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs". Book by George D. Prentice, 1859.

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• The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

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  Escritura, Hombres, Personas

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• Un dentista que trabaja en su vocación siempre mira hacia abajo en la boca.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Dental Work, Looks

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• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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  Debt Free, People, Use

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• Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

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  Prejudice, Twins

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• Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

  George D. Prentice

  People, Peculiar, Facts

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• Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

  George D. Prentice

  Courage, Cowardice, Liable

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• Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

  George D. Prentice

  Writing, Editing, Punctuation

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• When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Long, Intelligence

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• Las olas del misterioso río de la muerte gemían; el ruido, el grito, el temible estruendo de los cañones de aliento rojo y los lamentos de las innumerables víctimas llenaban el aire.

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  War, Rivers, Air

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• Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

  George D. Prentice

  Smoking, Tobacco

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• 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 D. Prentice

  Life, Men, Half

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• Algunos ancianos y ancianas se amargan con la edad; cuanto más se les caen los dientes, más muerden.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspiración, Divertido, Hombres

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• A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

  George D. Prentice

  Divertido, Perro, Animal

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