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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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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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Silence never makes any blunders.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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