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«Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness»
«The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide»
«The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.»
«Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.»
«About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.»
«As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
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Truth
| Keywords:
excess, scarce, supply, Supply and demand
«The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
«If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.»
«Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
bank, economy, in return, pennies, savings, savings bank
«When a man loses his health, then he first begins to take good care of it»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
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