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Quotations of selected author
Josh Billings
1818-1885. True name Henry Wheeler Shaw, American humor writer.
1. "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
categories: Forgiveness
2. "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
3. "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
categories: Oration and Silence
4. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience
5. "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
categories: Marriage
6. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
categories: Life and Death
8. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
categories: Life and Death
9. "In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us."
categories: Youth and Age
10. "If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither."
categories: Truth and Falsity
categories: Happiness
12. "I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."
categories: Oration and Silence
13. "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it."
categories: Health and Alcohol
14. "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."
categories: Manners and Ethics
categories: Sin and Conscience
16. "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
categories: Nature and Animals
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