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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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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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