I have often heard of men who had become disgusted with the world, and retired into solitude; but I have never heard of a committee of our first citizens waiting on them and asking them to come back.


Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)


I have often heard of men who had become disgusted with the world, and retired into solitude; but I have never heard of a committee of our first...

I have often heard of men who had become disgusted with the world, and retired into solitude; but I have never heard of a committee of our first...

I have often heard of men who had become disgusted with the world, and retired into solitude; but I have never heard of a committee of our first...

I have often heard of men who had become disgusted with the world, and retired into solitude; but I have never heard of a committee of our first...