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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
Learning
Trouble
Science
Much
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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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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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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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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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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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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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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