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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Topic: Ability
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
Topic: Age
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In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
Topic: Age
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Topic: Argument
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Topic: Art and Artists
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Topic: Bigotry
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There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
Topic: Birth
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
Topic: Borrowing
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Topic: Brevity
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Topic: Brevity
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Topic: Business
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.
Topic: Caution
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Topic: Common Sense
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Topic: Common Sense
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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.
Topic: Communication
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The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
Topic: Enemy
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Topic: Experience
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Topic: Experience
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If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Topic: Faith
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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.
Topic: Faith
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Topic: Flattery
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Topic: Flattery
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Topic: Fools
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Topic: Forgiveness
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
Topic: Forgiveness
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Topic: Fraud
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Topic: Glutton
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Topic: Gluttony
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There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Topic: Gravity
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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Topic: Life
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The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.
Topic: Listening
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Topic: Luck
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Topic: Lying
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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.
Topic: Marriage
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Topic: Misery
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Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Topic: Necessity
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Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
Topic: Opportunity
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Topic: Perfection
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Topic: Perfection
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Topic: Perseverance
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Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
Topic: Pity
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Topic: Poverty
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Topic: Pride
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One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Topic: Quick
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If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
Topic: Radical
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Topic: Repentance
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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.
Topic: Repentance
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Topic: Scandal
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