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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.

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
Thing
Men
Think
Thinking
Judgment
Least

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