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Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

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
Children
Victims
Never
Victim
Teach
Child
Certain
May
Firsts
Shrewdness
First
Cunning

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