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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Josh Billings
