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True valor is like honesty it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Josh Billings

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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
Men
Like
Valor
Enters
Sees
Honesty
True
Doe

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