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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

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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
Disgrace
Comedy

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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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There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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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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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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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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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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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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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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