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Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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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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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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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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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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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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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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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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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
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