Quotes by Josh Billings
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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There's lots 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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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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There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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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.
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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
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Health is like money; we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
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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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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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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
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I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
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As scarce as the truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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