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Method is the arithmetic of success.

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
Success
Arithmetic
Method

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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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