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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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Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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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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Ambition is like hunger it obeys no law but its appetite
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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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