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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.