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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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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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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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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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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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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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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
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There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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