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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Library
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Everywhere
Tiptoe
Wide
Tiptoes
Learning
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Wisdom
Sleeps
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Libraries
Awake

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