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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
Everywhere
Snores
Wide
Tiptoe
Learning
Tiptoes
Wisdom
Chakra
Sleep
Sleeps
Libraries
Awake
Library

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