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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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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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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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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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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
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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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