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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
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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