Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Brief Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Sayings.

Yu kant make a man yure friend bi lending him munny, nofif yu ever stop doing it; but yu may make him yure bitterest enemy. I think it requites a good deal more skill to manage a friend than it duz an enemy. Liars don’t seem to know that everyboddy had rather listen to the truth than to a falshood. Bad men alwuss gro worse. This setting down and waiting for sumthing to turn up iz a good way to ketch the fever ague, or git (stung bi a hornet, or be knokt lied over heels bi a stray mule, but thare ain’t no munny in it. Thare iz but very little truth traveling around loose; two-lhirds ov all the gossip that iz afloat iz either a lie or will be bi the time it haz changed hands once more. Fame that don’t pay a good fair per cent iz a poor artlkle to deal in. Pitty iz too cheap and common to be worth mutch. Everyboddy iz pleased with flattery;it iz only the kind and quality that iz sumtimes offensive. A haff-cdukated man iz like a haffbroke mule; he iz az dangerous to himself az he iz to others. Philosophers are az plenty az tud stools; what the world stands in need ov most just now iz sum good honest workers. He who wont accept an apology ought to forever lose the debt. Apologys are lawful tender. The man who iz the fust to forgive iz the fust to win the'viktory. It iz generally safe to claim a good deal, for men seliluingit more than they ask for. Fortune’s wheel iz allwuz on the move;. beds wins to-day and tails to-morrow An ounce ov pluk is worth more than a pound ov muscle. I hav seen very good-hatured people entirely spilte for all praklikul purposes bi coming suddenly into posseshun ov a pair pv horses and buggy. ’ Familiiritys, even between friends, | must be indulged in with grate caushun. | Good breeding iz nothing more than ! good . sense and politeness properly com\bined. -V -r..: ■■ ‘ • A * . * ’

The individual who kan coolly wear' a pair ov boots for two years and a haff without having them tapt aint good lor mutch hlse. A lazy man never ought to set up for a raskall; raskality iz bizzy bizzinpss. The cheapest learning i kno ov iz to listep. I am fully satisfied that honesty haz no pedigree; thare iz just az mutch ov it amung the lower az the higher orders. "'Know thyself" iz the hardest lesson that enny human being haz ever undertook yet. Learning iz helthy, but to kno how to use it iz helthier. The man who kant find nothing to do iz* generally mighty fraid he will. To be kontinually reading and never reflekting haz the same effekt on the mind that kontinual eating and no exercise has on the body.— Josh Billinas, in N. Y. Weekly.