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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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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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