“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“It takes brains to make a smart man, but good luck often makes a famous one.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“There are only two things that I know of that a man wont brag of, one is lying, and the other is jealousy.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“There are a great many excuses that are worse than the offence.” — Josh Billings, “Mollassis Kandy,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“Az a genral thing, we envy in others, not what we aint got, but what we hav got less than others.” — Josh Billings, “Mollassis Kandy,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.” — Josh Billings, “Sollum Thoughts,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“Thoze who becum disgusted, and withdraw from the world, musn’t forgit one thing, that the world will forgit them, a long time before they will forgit the world.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“Edukashun iz a good thing generally, but most pholks eddukate their prejudices.” — Josh Billings, Everybody’s Friend
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“Ambishun iz like hunger—it obeys no law but its appetight.” — Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.” — Josh Billings
“What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.” — Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings