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Schriftsteller, Humorist, "Essay on the Mule" (USA,1818 - 1885).
Josh Billings · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Josh Billings wäre heute 206 Jahre, 6 Monate, 12 Tage oder 75.436 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.04.1818 in Lanesboro/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 14.10.1885 in Monterey/Kalifornien
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Weitere 53 Zitate von Josh Billings
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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Aristocrat: A demokrat with his pockets filled.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Common sense is the favorite daughter of reason.
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Don't ever prophesy: for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
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I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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I suppose that one reason why the road to ruin is broad, is to accommodate the great amount of travel in that direction.
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I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally on one spot.
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Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the latter in life we hav it the tuffer it goes with us.
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Natur never makes enny blunders. When she makes a phool she means it.
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Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over a man is to beat him at politeness.
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Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
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