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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

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
Wherever
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Listen
Others
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Grievance
Agreeable

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