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The pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw.Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (21 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not endured so well with later generations.
Here are some famous quotes by Josh Billings.
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Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
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Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
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Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
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Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
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Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
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It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
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As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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There's a great power in words if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
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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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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoe.
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It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.
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As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
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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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When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you you should stay home and have a good cry.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
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When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
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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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There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
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My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
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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 nose all the time.