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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
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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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