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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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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Men
Radical
Conservative
Wrong
Right

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