Quote by Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would

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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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings

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To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. – Albert Camus

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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever

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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. – Italian Proverb

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