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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

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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
Brightened
Grindstone
Ground
Lucky
Experience
Inspirational
Life

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