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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

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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
Knowin
Ignorance
Stuff
True

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