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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

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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
Rather
Change
Thing
Good
Men
Leading
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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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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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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A witty writer is like a porcupine his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
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It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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