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

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. – Josh Billings

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. – Josh Billings

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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Sometimes… when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. – From the television show Ally McBeal

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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. – Charles Lamb

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One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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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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Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job. – Gerrit-Jan Kloosterman

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The sun seems fascinated to get closer to this paradise landscape, and keeps dropping half inch by half inch in the west. Tenderly he flies to his lover, the Ocean, who twists in delight with his imminent arrival. “Patience, my love,” the Sun whispers in long golden rays. “Soon I am yours.” – Edmond Manning, King Perry

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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"

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