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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
Much
Men
Talks
Silence
Says
Words
Care

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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
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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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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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Perseverance is king.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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