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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 happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
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The books are balanced in heaven, not here.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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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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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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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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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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Silence never makes any blunders.
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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