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[Science is] the literature of truth.

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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
Literature
Science
Truth

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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
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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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Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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