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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
Truth
Literature
Science

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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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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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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
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You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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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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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
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The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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