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People travel to learn most of them before they start should learn to travel.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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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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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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