Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — THE PHILOSOPHER. [ARTICLE]

THE PHILOSOPHER.

The flatterer is always sure tis his audience. The harder you are to please, the less your friends will try.. The proof of the pudding may also be in the amount left over. Many a man gives himself away who isn’t an advocate of free speech. i . A woman’s idea of a good likeness is one that looks just like she thinks she looks. Troubles too often come disguised. Many a chaperon develops into a matchmaker. » I There are men who hesitate to hide their light under a bushel for fear the world will thereby be left in darkness. . Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.—F. W. Faber. Two excesses: exclude reason, admit only reason.—Pascal. I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.—George Eliot. . . "To be angry with a weak man is proof that ybu are not very strong yourself.”