Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — CYNICISMS. [ARTICLE]

CYNICISMS.

The egotist is always the other fellow. Few of us suffer from the monotony of happtofeßs. Many a good bluff has been called by a better one. Aeroplanes and lobsters are both likely to upset us. Loafing is really no fun unless you have a lot of work to do. When a man is generous to a fault It fb usually his own fault. It Isn’t so safe to judge by appearances as by disappearances. The charity that begins at home is often expended on ourselves.. Popularity merely consists of keeping our troubles to ourselves. The more a man intends to do tomorrow the less he does today. Some people seem to be so ultrarefined as to bcorn common sense. Conscience Is a still, small voice that tells a man when he is found out. s Many a woman with a fair complexion is unfair to most other ways. You sometimes hear of a woman who is speechless with indignation—in books. Those who have greatness thrust upon them are apt to grate on the rest of us. It takes a pretty mean man to keep the cigars you gave him, only to pass them back to you. A good thing will always bear repeating, unless it happens to be a vote.