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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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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
Learn
Easy
Experience
Nothing
Hard
Apply
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Wise

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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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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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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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Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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