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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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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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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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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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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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I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
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You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
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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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