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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

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
Never
Hundred
Time
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Anything
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Remarkable
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Aging

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