American - Comedian | April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885
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.
Josh Billings
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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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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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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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
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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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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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