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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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Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
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We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.
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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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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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[Science is] the literature of truth.
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Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Method is the arithmetic of success.
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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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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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