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When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

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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
Occasions
Hills
Begins
Funny
Greased
Seems
Sarcasm
Young
Hill
Everything
Occasion
Men
Sarcastic

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