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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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