| The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. |
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- Josh Billings |
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| Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. |
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- Josh Billings |
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