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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
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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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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