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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
Josh Billings
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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
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Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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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 called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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