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Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,--babbling gossips of the air.
Josh Billings
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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
Echoes
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
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