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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

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
Talks
Silence
Says
Words
Care
Much
Men

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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
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Perseverance is king.
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Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
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Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
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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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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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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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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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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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