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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.

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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
People
Travel
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Learn

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Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
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I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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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 squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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