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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 great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
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Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
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The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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Young widows still bide their time.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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