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quotes[0]='Gas fumes are injurious to leather bookbindings.'

quotes[1]='Carelessly secured doors and windows encourage the burglar.'

quotes[2]='The cleaner a carpet is kept the longer it will last.'

quotes[3]='Keep old corks : they come in handy for many purposes.'

quotes[4]='An old hot water bottle cut down makes a good sponge bag.'

quotes[5]='Dried orange peel and lemon peel are good for lighting fires.'

quotes[6]='Too much furniture is almost as bad as too little.'

quotes[7]='The convenience of a room depends largely on the arrangement of the furniture.'

quotes[8]='A possession stored away and forgotten is a possession half lost.'

quotes[9]='Sunlight and fresh air are enemies of disease germs.'

quotes[10]='A little oil applied where it is needed will work wonders.'

quotes[11]='Avoid bright metal fittings if you dislike using metal polish.'

quotes[12]='Picture cords are perishing all the time, and need looking after.'

quotes[13]='Preserve odds and ends of soap and boil them up into soap jelly.'

quotes[14]='Discourage vermin by putting all food out of their reach.'

quotes[15]='Superfluous ornaments and ornamentation increase labour uselessly.'

quotes[16]='When you buy a pair of bellows choose a large pair.'

quotes[17]='Dressing well is largely a matter of attention to details.'

quotes[18]='To cool an oven, put a pan of water inside it.'

quotes[19]='Polished pans make a cheerful kitchen.'

quotes[20]='When cooking cheese be sparing with the salt.'

quotes[21]='The strength of a chain is that of its weakest link.'

quotes[22]='A knowledge of knots will prevent many hitches.'

quotes[23]='Two thin coats of paint are better than a single thick one.'

quotes[24]='Don\'t bore holes through beams without considering their effect.'

quotes[25]='A few minutes of sorting may save hours of hunting.'

quotes[26]='An hour spent on planning often saves a day in making.'

quotes[27]='A good rule: measure twice before cutting once.'

quotes[28]='A horse power is equivalent to raising 33,000lb one foot per minute.'

quotes[29]='It is far easier to prevent rust than to get rid of it.'

quotes[30]='The purchase of good and useful tools is a good investment.'

quotes[31]='Use as much of your saw as you can when cutting.'

quotes[32]='Small screwdrivers for small screws; large for large.'

quotes[33]='Remove grease from aluminium with turpentine.'

quotes[34]='Finish the day with a tidy bench and a clean floor.'

quotes[35]='A rope knotted at intervals of a foot is easily climbed.'

quotes[36]='A sphere has approximately half the contents of a cube just enclosing it.'

quotes[37]='One inch of rain means 100 tons of water per acre.'

quotes[38]='Don\'t take a thing apart unless you are confident to reassemble it.'

quotes[39]='Take advantage of hot summer weather to do any tarring required.'

quotes[40]='Dig a small area thoroughly rather than a large area imperfectly.'

quotes[41]='Ill-drained soils are always cold, owing to constant evaporation.'

quotes[42]='Green manuring is not practised as widely as it deserves.'

quotes[43]='Don\'t cut down an old apple tree merely because it is old.'

quotes[44]='Keep your gooseberry bushes open to encourage fruiting.'

quotes[45]='When planting an avenue of trees, space them for fifty years ahead.'

quotes[46]='Make a point of seeing a pet before paying for it.'

quotes[47]='Don\'t let a kennel face north or east.'

quotes[48]='A good pair of rabbits will produce 1 cwt of progeny in two seasons.'

quotes[49]='Though ducks like water, they are very susceptible to damp.'

quotes[50]='House goats at night in summer; day and night in winter.'

quotes[51]='From two to three gallons of milk are needed to produce 1lb of butter.'

quotes[52]='Have you tried to float a piece of wire gauze on water?'

quotes[53]='Can you, with one eye closed, knock a sixpence off the edge of the table?'

quotes[54]='With gloves on your hands, try guessing by touch what things are.'

quotes[55]='Fill your lungs well with air before beginning to blow a soap bubble.'

quotes[56]='Take care of your wicket and the runs will take care of themselves.'

quotes[57]='When cycling in hilly country, inspect the brakework frequently.'

quotes[58]='Pump up your tyres well, and they will serve you well.'

quotes[59]='At football don\'t go to sleep when the play is in another part of the field.'

quotes[60]='Training means doing the right thing in the right way and in due measure.'

quotes[61]='Over lubrication may cause trouble; under lubrication will cause a breakdown.'

quotes[62]='A gallon of petrol weighs approximately seven and a half pounds.'

quotes[63]='The nervous rider makes the nervous horse.'

quotes[64]='Misbehaviour in a horse is often due to insufficient exercise.'

quotes[65]='A sea breaking over the bows is less dangerous than one breaking over the stern.'

quotes[66]='Bag-punching is one of the finest forms of physical exercise.'

quotes[67]='Breathe through your nose and you will  hear till you die.'

quotes[68]='Frequent wetting and imperfect drying loosen the hair.'

quotes[69]='Tight and unventilated headgear produces baldness.'

quotes[70]='A foot cramped in childhood may be a torture in middle age.'

quotes[71]='Two good doctors: a cheerful heart and a cheery laugh.'

quotes[72]='Don\'t think yourself worse than you are : to be ill is bad enough.'

quotes[73]='Boxing a child\'s ears may easily injure the hearing.'

quotes[74]='Lose an hour in the morning and you will be hunting for it all day.'

quotes[75]='Don\'t refuse to listen to advice; there is no need to act upon it.'

quotes[76]='When writing to a stranger write your signature plainly.'

quotes[77]='Read and digest a document before you append your signature.'

quotes[78]='Out of business hours forget business - if you can.'

quotes[79]='The man who decides quickly often makes up other people\'s minds for them.'

quotes[80]='Though your case may be good it will not necessarily win.'

quotes[81]='To avoid being seen, keep off the skyline and keep still.'

quotes[82]='The height of a normally proportioned person is equal to his span.'

quotes[83]='Rain before seven, fine before eleven.'

quotes[84]='Learning to draw correctly is largely a matter of perseverance and close observation.'

quotes[85]='Good subjects for the camera are to  be found almost everywhere.'

quotes[86]='A paper-basket stood in the corner of a room is easily thrown into.'

quotes[87]='Water cannot be sucked through a greater height than 34 feet.'

quotes[88]='At one foot from the fire the heat is four times that at two feet.'

quotes[89]='The wife of a reckless man is already half a widow.'

quotes[90]='Razor blades recuperate some of their sharpness if given a rest.'

quotes[91]='A knowledge of signalling sometimes proves very useful.'

quotes[92]='The best chicks come from the eggs laid earliest in the year.'

quotes[93]='If roosting perches be all on the same level, fowls will not fight for place.'

quotes[94]='A cat is not made a better mouser by being kept hungry.'

quotes[95]='If horse racing be the sport of kings, then running around in circles be the sport of hamsters.'

quotes[96]='Irish Diplomacy: being able to tell a man to go to hell such that he looks forward to going.'

quotes[97]='You\'ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.'

quotes[98]='Who gossips with you will gossip of you.'

quotes[99]='Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.'

quotes[100]='It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.'

quotes[101]='Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.'

quotes[102]='Stars make no noise.'

quotes[103]='Don\'t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.'

quotes[104]='Questioning is the door of knowledge.'

quotes[105]='It\'s for its own good that the cat purrs.'

quotes[106]='There is no need like the lack of a friend.'

quotes[107]='Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.'

quotes[108]='A lock is better than suspicion.'

quotes[109]='Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.'

quotes[110]='Even a small thorn causes festering.'

quotes[111]='He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.'

quotes[112]='If you want to be criticised, marry.'

quotes[113]='A cat in gloves catches no mice.'

quotes[114]='Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.'

quotes[115]='He who is everywhere is nowhere.'

quotes[116]='If every man would sweep his own door-step the city would soon be clean.'

quotes[117]='The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it.'

quotes[118]='Technology is a way of organising the universe so that man doesn\'t have to experience it.'

quotes[119]='As the garden grows so does the gardener.'

quotes[120]='A beautiful garden is a work of heart.'

quotes[121]='Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out.'

quotes[122]='The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers.'

quotes[123]='You must judge a man by the work of his hands.'

quotes[124]='Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.'

quotes[125]='It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.'

quotes[126]='A man without a smiling face must not open shop.'

quotes[127]='Show me your company and I\'ll tell you who you are.'

quotes[128]='Always carry a banana.'

quotes[129]='Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.'

quotes[130]='Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.'

quotes[131]='Be pleasant until ten o\'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.'

quotes[132]='The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.'

quotes[133]='Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.'

quotes[134]='Eat more fruit.' 

quotes[135]='Don\'t look where you fall, but where you slipped.'

quotes[136]='Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'

quotes[137]='Whatever you are be a good one.'

quotes[138]='Promise only what you can deliver.  Then deliver more than you promise.' 

quotes[139]='Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.'

quotes[140]='To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.'

quotes[141]='Work out your own salvation.  Do not depend on others.'

quotes[142]='The best way to predict your future is to create it.'

quotes[143]='There is no point in living if you can\'t feel alive.'

quotes[144]='The more I can imagine, the more I connect, and the more I connect, the more I imagine.'

quotes[145]='The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.'

quotes[146]='It\'s always a good idea to ask first.'

quotes[147]='Earl Grey is best drunk without milk.'

quotes[148]='If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you\'ll most certainly be right.'

quotes[149]='Your time is limited, so don\'t waste it living someone else\'s life.'

quotes[150]='Training is useful, but there is no substitute for experience.'

quotes[151]='Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'

quotes[152]='It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.'

quotes[153]='A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.' 

quotes[154]='Aspire to a lower level of harm.'

quotes[155]='When you throw dirt, you lose ground.'

quotes[156]='Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.' 

quotes[157]='God is good, but never dance in a small boat.' 

quotes[158]='Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.'

quotes[159]='Always begin an email with \'Dear..\'.'

quotes[160]='42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.'

quotes[161]='A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.'

quotes[162]='Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.'

quotes[163]='Life is too short for cheap chocolate.'

quotes[164]='Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.'

quotes[165]='Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.'

quotes[166]='Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.'

quotes[167]='Stop and look at something beautiful every day.'

quotes[168]='Don’t worry; it only seems kinky the first time.'

quotes[169]='Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.'

quotes[170]='Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving.'

quotes[171]='Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.'

quotes[172]='If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.'

quotes[173]='If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of credit card payments.'

quotes[174]='Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, \'What the hell happened?\'.'

quotes[175]='It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.'

quotes[176]='It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.'

quotes[177]='Never miss a good chance to shut up.'

quotes[178]='Remember, half the people you know are below average.'

quotes[179]='The only cure for insomnia is to get more sleep.'

quotes[180]='The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.'

quotes[181]='Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art.'

quotes[182]='A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.'

quotes[183]='Thought is not catching.'

quotes[184]='We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.'

quotes[185]='Wisdom comes with winters.'

quotes[186]='The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.'

quotes[187]='Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'

quotes[188]='It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.'

quotes[189]='Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'

quotes[190]='Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.'

quotes[191]='Only the shallow know themselves.'

quotes[192]='One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.'

quotes[193]='The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'

quotes[194]='A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone\'s feelings unintentionally.'

quotes[195]='A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'

quotes[196]='A true friend stabs you in the front.'

quotes[197]='An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.'

quotes[198]='Wars create problems, not solve them.'

quotes[199]='Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'

quotes[200]='Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.'

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