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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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It's not ignorance does so much damage it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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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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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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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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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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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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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
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Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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