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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. (Josh Billings)
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. View quote
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. View quote
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. View quote
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. View quote
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. View quote
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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. View quote
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. View quote
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. View quote
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I don't beleave in fighting; i am solemly aginst it; but if a man gits teu fighting, i am also solemly aginst hiz gitting licked. After a fight iz once opened, all the virtew thare iz in it iz tew lick the other party. View quote
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Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet. (Josh Billings)
I don't rekoleckt now ov ever hearing ov two dogs fiteing unless thare waz a man or two around. View quote
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There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it. View quote
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Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. View quote
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. View quote
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. View quote
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. View quote
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. View quote
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. View quote
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Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense. View quote
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One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. (Josh Billings)
Some folks are wise and some otherwise. View quote
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As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. View quote
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Familiarity breeds kontempt. View quote
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The trouble ain't that people are ignorant it's that they know so much that ain't so. View quote
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