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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

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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
Men
Scales
Life
Whose
Comedy
Pleasure
Moral
Less
Making
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Money
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