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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. – Kin Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. – Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Alan Marshall Beck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen. – John Sloan Dickey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket. – Frank McKinney Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. – Jewish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Feel for others--in your pocket. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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