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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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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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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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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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