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[Science is] the literature of truth.

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
Literature
Science
Truth

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If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
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There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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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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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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