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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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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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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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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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