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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
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