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Quote by Josh Billings
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could ha

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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings

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Dont ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. – Josh Billings

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