Josh Billings - Poor Quotes

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Marrying for beauty is a poor speculation, for any man who sees your wife, has got just about as much stock in her as you have.

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

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When I see a poor, and proud aristocrat, particular about punctilio, he always puts me in mind of a drunken man, trying to walk a crack.

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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.

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Love has a most voracious appetite, but a poor digestion, what it feeds on most always distresses it. Prudes, are coquettes, gone to seed. It is our duty to pray for them who revile and persecute us, but I don't know as we are obliged to let them know it.

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Hunters and gamblers are poor economists, they kill time, a species of game that can't be reproduced.

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