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Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
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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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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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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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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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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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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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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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