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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
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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