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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
Ideas
Never
Hunting
Seen
Words
Idea
Often
Art

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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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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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[Science is] the literature of truth.
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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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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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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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A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
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Silence never makes any blunders.
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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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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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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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