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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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Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
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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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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Perseverance is king.
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
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I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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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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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
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