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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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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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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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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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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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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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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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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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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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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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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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