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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

There is two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.