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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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Silence never makes any blunders.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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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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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
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Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
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