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Titles are valuable they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

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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
Valuable
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Lost
Persons
Many
Acquainted
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Rubbish
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Titles
Otherwise

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