human
You always ought to end a speech with a sneer or a laconic remark. It is food for thought. The listener will pause and reflect.
gpt
It is not what you make, but what you save, that counts. It isn't the big cracksman who gets along. It is the unknown dip who saves his earnings.
human
To go to Germany to learn the language is as bad as being in stir for ten years.
gpt
Jump out and be a man and don't join the Salvation Army.
human
Always say to the dip who says he wants to square it; Well, what's your other graft?
gpt
When a con gets home he is apt to find his sweetheart married, and a 'Madonna of the wash tubs.'
human
He made good money and was a swell grafter, but he got stuck on a Tommy that absorbed his attention, and then he lost his punctuality and went down and out.
gpt
Do a criminal a bodily injury and he may forget. Wound his feelings and he will never forgive.
human
Most persons have seen a cow or a bull with a board put around its head in such a way that the animal can see nothing. It is a mode of punishment. Soon the poor beast will go mad, if the board is not removed. What chance has the convict, confined in a dark cell for years, to keep his senses? He suffers from astigmatism of the mind.
gpt
I am as much entitled to an opinion as any other quack on the face of the earth.
human
General Grant is one of my heroes. He was a boy at fifteen. He was a boy when he died. A boy is loyalty personified. General Grant had been given a task to do, and like a boy, he did it. He was one of our greatest men, and belongs with Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Robert Ingersoll.
gpt
Why don't we like the books we liked when we were boys? It is not because our judgment is better, but because we have a dream of our own now, and want authors to dream along the same lines.
human
The only gun with principles is the minor grafter.
gpt
The weakest man in the universe is he who falls from a good position and respectable society into the world of graft. Forgers and defaulters are generally of this class. A professional gun, who has been a thief all his life, is entitled to more respect.
human
In writing a book on crime, one ought to have in mind to give the public a truthful account of a thief's life, his crimes, habits, thoughts, emotions, vices and virtues, and how he lives in prison and out. I believe this ought to be done, and the man who does it well must season his writings with pathos, humor, sarcasm, tragedy, and thus give the real life of the grafter.
gpt
Sympathy with a grafter who is trying to square it is a tonic to his better self.
human
The other day I was with a reporter and a society lady who were seeing the town. The lady asked me how I would get her diamond pin. It was fastened in such a way that to get it, strong arm work would be necessary. I explained how I would put the mug on her
gpt
Life is the basis of philosophy. Philosophy is an emanation from our daily routine. After a convict has paced his cell a few thousand times he sometimes has an idea. Philosophy results from life put through a mental process, just as opium, when subjected to a chemical experiment, produces laudanum. Why, therefore, is not life far stronger than a narcotic?
human
I believe in platonic love, for it has been in my own life. A woman always wants love, whether she is eighteen or eighty--real love. Many is the time I have seen the wistful look in some woman's eye when she saw that it was only good fellowship or desire on my part.
gpt
In this age of commerce there is only one true friendship, the kind that comes through business.
human
An old adage has it that all things come to him who waits. Yes: poverty, old age and death. The successful man is he who goes and gets it.
gpt
If thy brother assaults you, do not weep, nor pray for him, nor turn the other cheek, but assail him with the full strength of your muscles, for man at his best is not lovable, nor at his worst, detestable.
human
There is more to be got in Germany, judging from what Dutch Lonzo used to say, than in England or America, only the Dutchmen are too thick-headed to find it out. A first class gun in Germany would be ranked as a ninth-rater here.
gpt
Grafters are like the rest of the world in this: they always attribute bad motives to a kind act.
human
From flim-flam (returning short change) to burglary is but a step, provided one has the nerve.
gpt
Why would a woman take to him (a sober, respectable man but lacking in temperament) unless she wanted a good home?
human
If there is anything detestable, it is a grafter who will steal an overcoat in the winter time.