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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
Great
Caution
Formed
Opinions
Changed
Opinion
Greater

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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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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A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
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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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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
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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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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
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