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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

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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
Art
Ideas
Never
Hunting
Seen
Words
Idea
Often

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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