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" Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. "
Josh Billings
Smile
Marriage
Love
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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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" The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. "
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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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" 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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" In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. "
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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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" Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. "
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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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" 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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Got
" Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. "
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" Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. "
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" Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. "
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Like
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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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Lost
" Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. "
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Tea
Maids
" There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. "
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Complete
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" A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. "
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Love
Love Yourself
Pet
" One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. "
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You
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Politeness
" About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. "
Josh Billings
Steal
Judgment
Hope
" The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. "
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Wrong
Way
Fool
" As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. "
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She
Right
Good
" There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. "
Josh Billings
Who
Enjoy
People
" The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. "
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Know
People
" My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. "
Winston Churchill
Wife
Me
Ability
" Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. "
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Good
Laughter
Over
" Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. "
Josh Billings
Time
Years
Enough
" Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. "
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Like
Funny
Cologne
" A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. "
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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Learning
" Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. "
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Man
" Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "
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