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" It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. "
Josh Billings
Most
Thing
Self
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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. "
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" Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. "
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" One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. "
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" Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. "
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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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Way
" The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. "
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" Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. "
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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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" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "
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" No one can disgrace us but ourselves. "
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Disgrace
" Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "
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Dog
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" Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. "
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Gets
He
Money
" In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. "
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Youth
Difficulties
Age
" Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. "
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Scandal
Tea
Maids
" There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. "
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People
World
Time
" Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. "
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Done
Doing
Common Sense
" Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. "
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Oil
Take
Like
" 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
" It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. "
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Job
Own
Him
" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "
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Wheel
Loudest
Grease
" Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. "
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Influence
Woman
Wants
" A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. "
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Puppy
Few
He
" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. "
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Playing
Cards
You
" Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. "
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Good
Laughter
Over
" There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. "
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Nothing
Than
Evidence
" 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. "
Josh Billings
Look
Enough
I Am
" There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. "
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Who
Two
" 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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Money
Got
" There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. "
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Two
Twins