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Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

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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
Physic
Coated
Sugar
Fun

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Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
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Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
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There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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