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Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

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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
Folks
Upon
Upstream
Fall
Insist
Would
Floating
River
Plenty
Contrary
Rivers

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