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You Quotes by Josh Billings
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
- 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…
- There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
- Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
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