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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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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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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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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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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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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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There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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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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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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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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