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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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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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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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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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