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Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

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
Watching
Nobody
Wants
Everybody
World

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