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Josh Billings Inspirational Quotes (200)

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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
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I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
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Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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