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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
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Art
Ideas
Never
Hunting
Seen
Words
Idea

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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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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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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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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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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[Science is] the literature of truth.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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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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Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
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