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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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