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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

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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
Writing
Educational
Comedy
Funny
Words
Hitch
Power
Brevity
Together
Editing
Many
Witty
Great
Humorous

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Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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