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Josh Billings Quotes
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Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist-it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Family Quote
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
Funny Quote
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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