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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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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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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
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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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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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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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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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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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