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The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
-Josh Billings
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Adversity
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
-Josh Billings
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Advice
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
-Josh Billings
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
-Josh Billings
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Age
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
-Josh Billings
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
-Josh Billings
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Animals
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
-Josh Billings
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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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Attitude
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
-Josh Billings
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Belief
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
-Josh Billings
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Brevity
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
-Josh Billings
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Business
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
-Josh Billings
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Caution
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
-Josh Billings
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Certainty
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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 certain of the first time.
-Josh Billings
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Charity
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To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
-Josh Billings
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Common Sense
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-Josh Billings
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Conscience
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-Josh Billings
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Control
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
-Josh Billings
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-Josh Billings
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Conversation
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
-Josh Billings
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
-Josh Billings
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
-Josh Billings
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Diets and Dieting
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
-Josh Billings
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Discovery
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
-Josh Billings
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Evil
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
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Books by and about Josh Billings