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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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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
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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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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
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Nature makes all the noblemen wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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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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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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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 man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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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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Ambition is like hunger it obeys no law but its appetite
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