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Josh Billings Quotes

«Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: Mother in Law
«Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has»
«Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.»
«Our necessities are few but our wants are endless»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: necessities
«The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: angleworm, scale, weighs
«It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.»
«Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.»
«Some folks are wise and some otherwise.»
«There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.»
«To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.»

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