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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

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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
Occasions
Choices
Upon
Opportunity
Rarer
Seize
Rare

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