–as a rule, pecuniary assistance is an injury to them.  If they have burnt their fingers, let them nurse them awhile–it may prove a valuable lesson.

poverty and profligacy go hand in hand, as a rule.

of the common laborers will not work as long as they have a dollar in their pockets, and many of them will not work at all until their empty stomachs warn them of approaching starvation.  As a rule, these are the men who talk about bloated bondholders, monopolists, hard times, etc.

unless your services are needed.  As a rule, persons go to funerals through curiosity, and would rather attend a funeral than a wedding.

a day spend three times as much money, as a rule, for tobacco, beer, whiskey, etc., as the millionaires.

because they do not divide with you–remember that, as a rule, if you were rich you would be the biggest hog in the market.

whose eyebrows are not divided in the middle, but extend all the way across the forehead–as a general rule he is dishonest.