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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Category: Adversity Author: Josh Billings
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I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
Category: Advice Author: Josh Billings
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Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
Category: Angels Author: Josh Billings
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Category: Charm Author: Josh Billings
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Category: Dogs Author: Josh Billings
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
Category: Dogs Author: Josh Billings
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There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
Category: Exaggeration Author: Josh Billings
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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Category: Experience Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Category: Faith Author: Josh Billings
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Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Category: Food Author: Josh Billings
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Category: Forgiveness Author: Josh Billings
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Category: Genius Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Category: Happiness Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Category: Health Author: Josh Billings
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Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Category: Health Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Category: Honesty Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Josh Billings
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Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Josh Billings
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Category: Ignorance Author: Josh Billings
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Category: Jealousy Author: Josh Billings
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