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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

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
Experience
Doesn
Follies
Increases
Reduce
Folly
Increase
Wisdom

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