Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — RAM’S HORN BROWN [ARTICLE]

RAM’S HORN BROWN

A fact never apologizes to anybody. Nothing can ever block the way for a man like his own bighead. Casting pearls before swine is still the poorest business in the world. One of the stubbornest facts In the world is that chickens will come home to roost. Holding a dollar within an inch at a man’s nose will make him blind to everything else. Nobody has ever been kept out of heaven because he did not know all there was to know about theology. The little sin we are determined to keep is the one that opens the door for the devil to come in with all the rest. The man who knows his Ignorance will soon be knocking at the wicket gate of wisdom, but the man who thinks he knows it all will never seO his coat to buy midnight oIL