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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
Never
Hunting
Seen
Words
Idea
Often
Art
Ideas

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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
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Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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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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The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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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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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
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Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
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Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
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