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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by acciden

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – 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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