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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

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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
Grunt
Disgrace
Lying
Fall
Men

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