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" I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. "
Josh Billings
Known
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Live
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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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" As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. "
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" It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. "
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" Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. "
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" About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. "
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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. "
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" The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. "
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" It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. "
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" Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. "
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" Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. "
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" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. "
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" Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. "
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" Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. "
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" Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. "
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. "
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" A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. "
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" Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. "
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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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" To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. "
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" Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. "
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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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