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The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

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
Thing
Men
Slippery
Ice
Hardest
Praise
Lord
Fall

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