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There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Without
People
Exaggeration
Addicted
Comedy
Lying
Actually
Tell
Truth

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