Josh Billings - Human Quotes

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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Josh Billings

All human happiness is conservative; 2 thirds of the pleasure in sliding down hill consists in drawing the sled back. I don't suppose there would be any fun in sliding down a hill 34 miles long.

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Poor human nature is too full of its own grievances to have any pity to spare, — if you show a man a big bile on your arm, he will tell you he had one twice as big as that, on the same spot, last year.

Josh Billings

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much, and pays so little, as revenge.

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If there is any human being that I thoroughly loath, it is the one who has nothing to boast of but his money—a mere pimp to his wealth.

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