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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
Wise
Learn
Easy
Experience
Nothing
Hard
Apply
Learning

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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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