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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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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
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