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Method is the arithmetic of success.

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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
Arithmetic
Method
Success

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
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You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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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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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
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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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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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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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Pedigrees seldom improve by age the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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