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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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Flattery
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Comedy
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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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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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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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