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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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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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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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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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