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Josh Billings

Josh Billings föddes den 12 april 1818 och dog den 14 oktober 1885 - psuedonym för Henry Wheeler Shaw, amerikansk humorist och forskningsresande.
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It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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.

Verden

The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust

There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once

Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at

Synd

Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot

I honestly believe it is better tew know nothing than tew know what ain't so

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

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