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Argument & Debate
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
-Josh Billings
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Experience
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"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
-Josh Billings, His Works Complete
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Life
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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings
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Mistakes
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"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
-Josh Billings
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Plagiarism
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
-Josh Billings
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Pride
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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.
-Josh Billings
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Truth
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
-Josh Billings
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Books by and about Josh Billings
