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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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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
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