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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Josh Billings

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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
Vagrants
Rumor
Pick
Picks
Upon
Lives
Home
Without
Vagrant

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