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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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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
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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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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Occasions are rare and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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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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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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