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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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
Great
Humorous
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Hitch
Power
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Together
Editing
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