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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

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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
Envy
Telescope
Relationship
Microscope
Hate
Microscopes
Looks
Telescopes
Love
Envied
Envious
Jealousy
Jealous

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