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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.
  Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E.W. Howe...
• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
  -- Ed Howe...
• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
  -- Ed Howe...
• You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think. -- Elbert Hubbard
• Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy
  because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else....
• You can call him an outdoor boy if he has the bloom of youth on his cheeks and the cheeks of youth in his bloomers.
• You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him. -- Ed Howe