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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Individuals
Gossips
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Babbling
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