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" 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. "
Josh Billings
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" Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. "
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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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" Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. "
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" I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first 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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