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" There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. "
Josh Billings
Nothing
Than
Evidence
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. "
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Experience
Learn
Nothing
" 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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Time
Years
Enough
" Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. "
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Sense
Common Sense
Enough
" Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. "
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You
Advice
People
" There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. "
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Together
Funny
Power
" The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. "
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Always
Ruin
" One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. "
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You
Victories
Politeness
" 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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Rich
Poor
" Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. "
Josh Billings
Man
Most
Interesting
" 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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Much
Money
Got
" About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. "
Josh Billings
Steal
Judgment
Hope
" I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. "
Josh Billings
Good
Home
Horror
" If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. "
Josh Billings
World
Enjoy
Perfection
" There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. "
Josh Billings
Change
Who
Two
" 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
" As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. "
Josh Billings
She
Right
Good
" Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. "
Josh Billings
Thankful
Wicked
God
" To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. "
Josh Billings
Yourself
Travel
Way
" If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. "
Josh Billings
Safety
World
Living
" A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. "
Josh Billings
Love
Love Yourself
Pet
" A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. "
Josh Billings
Puppy
Few
He
" 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
" I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. "
Josh Billings
Known
Anything
Live
" 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
" There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. "
Josh Billings
Mistake
Memory
Funny
" Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. "
Josh Billings
Microscope
Love
Envy
" Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. "
Josh Billings
Gets
He
Money
" Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. "
Josh Billings
Good
Laughter
Over
" 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