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Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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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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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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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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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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