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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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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Words
Care
Much
Men
Talks
Silence
Says

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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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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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The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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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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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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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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