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Things Quotes by Josh Billings
- There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first…
- One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
- It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
- The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
- It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
- One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
- There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
- It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do know that ain't so.
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