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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

Other quotes by Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

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Wisdom
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Josh Billings
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Josh Billings

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Youth
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Josh Billings
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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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Josh Billings
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Other Quotes from
Shame
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Shame

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. – St. Gregory The Great

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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

Shame is worse than death. – Proverb

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Shame

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A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need the advice. – Bill Cosby

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