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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

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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
Would
Millennium
Solved
Deceit
Pretend
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Mankind
Problem

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