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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
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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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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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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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
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Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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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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