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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
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Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
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Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
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