Quote by Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

Other quotes by Josh Billings

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings

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Persistence
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings

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Charm
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Other Quotes from
Shame
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Theres a blush for won t, and a blush for shant, and a blush for having done it: Theres a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. – John Keats

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Shame

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Shame

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

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Shame

Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Shame

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