I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison
By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half. . . . I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out.
The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,
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