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" It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. "
Josh Billings
Sins
Much
Easier
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" It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. "
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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 dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. "
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" It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. "
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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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" Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. "
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" Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. "
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" Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. "
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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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Tell
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" There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. "
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" Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. "
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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
" 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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" The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. "
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Everyone
More
" 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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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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Wisdom
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" Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. "
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He
Money
" There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. "
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Learn
Nothing
" It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. "
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" It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. "
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Than
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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. "
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Years
Enough
" Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. "
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Influence
Woman
Wants
" 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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Blind
Love Is
Said
" Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. "
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Than
Man
" A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. "
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" Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. "
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