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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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One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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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 more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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