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" The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. "
Josh Billings
Life
Making Money
Man
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" Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. "
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" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "
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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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" Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. "
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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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" Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. "
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" In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. "
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" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "
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" There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. "
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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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Said
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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
" Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. "
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" Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. "
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" There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. "
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