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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
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Opinions
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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
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The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
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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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There is a significant Latin proverb to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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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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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
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Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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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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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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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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As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of and that is judgment.
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Rumor is like bees the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
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