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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
Josh Billings
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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
Dog
Gets
Bits
Business
Better
Kind
Men
Adapted
Twice
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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