Josh Billings

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"It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."	Evil, Experience, Knowledge
"Good nonsense is good sense in disguise."	Evil
"The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do."	Miscellaneous
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."	Life, Men, Monarchy
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."	Art, Love
"Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner."	Age, Knowledge, Wisdom
"I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway."	Lies, Success
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so."	Knowledge
"History repeats itself because nobody listens."	Fear
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."	Wisdom
"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."	Wisdom
"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
"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
"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."	Quotations
"Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones."	Experience
"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety."	Faith
"Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."	Food
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."	Genius
"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."	Happiness
"There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."	Health
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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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