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Quote by Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. - Josh

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. – Josh Billings

Other quotes by Josh Billings

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. – Josh Billings

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God
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings

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

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Hope
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I think were all good and bad, but goods not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny. – Larry David

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If at first you dont succeed, blame your parents. – Marcelene Cox

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The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, whos really funny for a cartoonist, obviously. – Demetri Martin

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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. – H. L. Mencken

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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals – legal or illegal – cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. – Salvatore J. Cordileone

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Theres no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. – Will Rogers

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. – Albert Camus

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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. – John Philip Sousa

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