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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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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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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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