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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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Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
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It is easy to assume a habit but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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Perseverance is king.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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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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