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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

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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
World
Examples
Advice
Prove
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Wants
Wrong
May
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