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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

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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
Pedantry
Knowledge
Paraded

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
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There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
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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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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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