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George D. Prentice

George Dennison Prentice (December 18, 1802 – January 22, 1870) was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about a fictional guerrilla "Sue Mundy", whose activities he used to taunt the Union military commander of the state.

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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Broken, Easily, Kindness, Seldom, String, Witty

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

Fortress, Fortresses, Habit, Proportion

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Earthly, Earthly Possessions, Possession, Possessions, Self

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

Dress, Make, Mistake, Order, Simplicity, Thinking

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

Joy, Possession, Possessions, Satisfaction, Unimproved

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

Knows, Night, Pinion, Sleep, Time

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Children, Has Beens, People

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

Drop, Funny, Grow, Inspirational, Men

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

Editing, Exactness, Point, Profess, Punctuation, Writing

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Debt Free, Half, Paying, People, Use

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

Hair, Men, Pulls, Rude, Sooner, Time

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

Intelligence, Intemperate, Long, Man, Men

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

Fades, Rainbow, Realm, Realms

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

Air, Burst, Earthly, Echoes, Time, Wandering

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Assertion, Naked, Truth

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

Catch, Courage, Cowardice, Liable, Like, Undoubtedly

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Collect, Composure, Firsts, Occasions, Wit, Wits

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

Beat, Beats, Hard, Men, Ugliness

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

Bats, Cities, Hours, New York, Twilight

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

Profound, Seems, Thinking, Understand, Writer

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