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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
Formed
Opinions
Changed
Opinion
Greater
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Caution

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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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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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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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Silence never makes any blunders.
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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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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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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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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
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Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
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As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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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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Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
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