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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
Seen
Words
Idea
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Art
Ideas
Never
Hunting

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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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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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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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