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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
Greater
Great
Caution
Formed
Opinions
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Opinion

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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