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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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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Things
Learning
Trouble
Science
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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