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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
Radical
Conservative
Wrong
Right
Men

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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
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Ambition is like hunger it obeys no law but its appetite
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Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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