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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the h

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world aint lawful tender for a loaf of bread. – Josh Billings

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

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

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. – Cyril Connolly

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. – John Denham

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. – John Henry Newman

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