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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
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You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
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Perseverance is king.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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Young widows still bide their time.
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Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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Ambition is like hunger it obeys no law but its appetite
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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