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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.

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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
Easier
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Virtue
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Men
Virtues
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