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From The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, Volume III, New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls and Company, 1911; p. 424.


424

MAXIOMS

BY CAROLINE WELLS

Reward is its own virtue.

The wages of sin is alimony.

Money makes the mayor to go.

A penny saved spoils the broth.

Of two evils, choose the prettier.

There’s no fool like an old maid.

Make love while the moon shines.

Where there’s a won’t there’s a way.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

A word to the wise is a dangerous thing.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

A fool and his money corrupt good manners.

A word in the hand is worth two in the ear.

A man is known by the love-letters he keeps.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Whosoever thy hands find to do, do with thy might.

It’s a wise child who knows less than his own father.

Never put off till to-morrow what you can wear to-night.

He who loves and runs away, may live to love another day.











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