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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
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It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
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Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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