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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

Mother,

"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

Genius, Common sense, Instinct

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

Common sense,

"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."

Man, Will

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

Difference, Misery, Poor

"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."

Money,

"I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else."

Remarkable,

"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."

Man, Perfection, World

"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."

God, Growth, Old

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."

Happiness, Time, Hunting, Old

Exlpore more Love quotes

"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Love, Desire, Possession

"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Love, Mistake, Man

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Love, Happiness

"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Love, Duty

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Love, Kiss, Will

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller, American Author

Love, Heart, World

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Love, Heart, Care, Will

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Love,

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Love, Life, Mother, President

"All mankind love a lover."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Love, Mankind