Josh Billings

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"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."	Art, Love
"A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over."	Men
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Creativity
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"After enlightenment, the laundry."	Darkness, Light, Men
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."	Honesty, Men, Truth
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."	Age
"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."	Wisdom
"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."	Mistakes
"Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones."	Experience
"Flattery is like perfume water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."	Miscellaneous
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."	Genius
"Good nonsense is good sense in disguise."	Evil
"Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it."	Health
"History repeats itself because nobody listens."	Fear
"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."	Comedy, Honesty
"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time."	Life, Time
"I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine."	Advice
"I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway."	Lies, Success
"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety."	Faith
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Art	Comedy	Creativity
Darkness	Desires	Difficulty
Evil	Experience	Faith
Fear	Food	Forgiveness
Genius	Happiness	Health
Help	Honesty	Hope
Knowledge	Laughter	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Memory	Men
Miscellaneous	Mistakes	Monarchy
Money	Prayer	Quotations
Success	Technology	Time
Truth	Virtue	Wants
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying
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