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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
Maybe
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Examples
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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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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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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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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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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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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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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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