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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

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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
Firsts
Invented
First
Saving
Love
Machines
World
Sight
Labor
Saws
Greatest
Ever
Adam

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