Before You Speak...

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* "Gran´pa, how´s come you git along wi´ folks so good?" asked a young backwoods lad. "Well, I´ll tells ye," answered his old mountaineer grandfather, "I´se allus mighty careful to stop and taste mah words ´fore I lets ´em pass mah teeth!"

* Billy Sunday had just finished a sermon when a woman came up to him and admitted she had a bad temper, but that her anger was always over in a minute. Sunday replied, "So is a shotgun blast, but it blows everything to pieces."