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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
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When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
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The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
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Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
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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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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
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To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
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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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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
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Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.
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A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
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