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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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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
Judgment
Writer
Achieve
Honest
Plagiarism
Hope
Originality
Art
Steal
Good
Stealing
Honestly

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