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" Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. "
Josh Billings
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" The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. "
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" About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. "
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" Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. "
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" Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. "
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" Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. "
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" Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. "
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" Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. "
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" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. "
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" Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. "
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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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" Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "
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" If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. "
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" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "
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" No one can disgrace us but ourselves. "
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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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" Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. "
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" One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. "
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" A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. "
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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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" Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. "
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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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" You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so. "
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Things
" I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. "
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" Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. "
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He
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" If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. "
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" A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. "
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