People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — FIGS AND THISTLES. [ARTICLE]

FIGS AND THISTLES.

Where hard work kills one man, worry uses up a dozen. If happiness is your main object in life don’t try too hard to get rich. A lie always has a dagger in its band, no matter how well meaning it may look. Generally when a man feels the need of economy he thinks it ought to begin with his wife. The man who lives with his head in the clouds will generally be found standing with his foot on somibody’s neck.