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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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
Thing
Consider
Consists
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Postage
Motivational
Stick
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