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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

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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
Nothing
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World
Golden
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Silence
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Fools

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