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Vanity is a strange passion rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

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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
Brag
Vanity
Vices
Strange
Passion
Rather
Jobs

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