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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
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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[Science is] the literature of truth.
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If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Perseverance is king.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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