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“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
-- Josh Billings
#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational
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“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
-- Josh Billings
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
-- Josh Billings
#Relationship #Jealousy #Hate
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
-- Josh Billings
#Inspirational #Life #Bad Day
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“Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”
-- Josh Billings
#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Cost
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“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
-- Josh Billings
#Motivational #Health #Ideas
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“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
-- Josh Billings
#Communication #Parenting #Insperational
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“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
-- Josh Billings
#Life #Positive #Inspiration
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“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
-- Josh Billings
#Family #Dad #Children
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“Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.”
-- Josh Billings
#Meaningful #Laughter #Soul
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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
#Inspirational #Funny #Time
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“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
-- Josh Billings
#Funny #Witty #Memories
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“[Science is] the literature of truth.”
-- Josh Billings
#Science #Literature
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“We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.”
-- Josh Billings
#Hate #Advice #Despise
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“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
-- Josh Billings
#Wise #Men #Doe
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“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
-- Josh Billings
#Happiness #Smile #Attitude
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
-- Josh Billings
#Inspirational #Smile #Anniversary
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
-- Josh Billings
#Forgiveness #Revenge #Vengeance
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“Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.”
-- Josh Billings
#Opportunity #Occasions
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“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
-- Josh Billings
#Lying #People #Comedy
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“Some folks are wise and some otherwise.”
-- Josh Billings
#Wise #Folks
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“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.”
-- Josh Billings
#Worry #People #Sorrow
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“Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.”
-- Josh Billings
#Love #Powerful #Want
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“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
-- Josh Billings
#Fall #Squash #Long
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“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
-- Josh Billings
#Common Sense #Genius #Comedy
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“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”
-- Josh Billings
#Wisdom #Truth #Honesty
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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
-- Josh Billings
#Wisdom #Learning #Sleep
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“There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.”
-- Josh Billings
#Two #Comedy #Twins
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“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
-- Josh Billings
#Victory #Gains #Funny Business
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“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
-- Josh Billings
#Faith #Men #Comedy
