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Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

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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
Mirrors
Friendship
Broken
Ends
Love
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Mirror

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