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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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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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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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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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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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