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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
Comedy
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Smelt
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Billing
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Cologne
Swallowed
Flattery
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Humorous
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
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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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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
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