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Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

Josh Billings

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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
Fun
Physic
Coated
Sugar

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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
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Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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Silence never makes any blunders.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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Young widows still bide their time.
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As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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