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Misplaced charity is a good blunder to make. If you want to get a good general idea of a man's character find out from him what his opinion of his neighbor is.

Josh Billings
It is a darned sight easier to find six men who can tell exactly how a thing ought to be did than to find one who will do it.

Josh Billings
I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

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

Josh Billings
Many people spend their time trying to find the hole where sin got into this world—if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole to get out, rather than get into a long argument about the hole they come to fall in.

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Take all the prophecies that have come to pass, and all that have caught on the center, and failed to come to time, and make them up in an average, and yer will find, that buying stock, on the Codfish Bank of Nufoundland, at 50%, for a rise, is, in comparison, a good speculative business.

Josh Billings
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Josh Billings