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Josh Billings: top 100 quotes
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An Aphorism (n.) is a short sentence, sharp at both ends.
The Dandy (n.) is one for whom clothes form his intellect.
Science (n.) is the literature of truth.
The Dog (n.) is sometimes too friendly to be intimate. Any dog that will follow everybody ain't worth a curse.
A Dog (n.) is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Stupidity (n.) is unconscious ignorance.
Quarreling (n.) is not about winning. It's often worse to win a fight than to lose.
Love (n.) is like measles... you can get it only once, and the later in life it occurs the tougher it goes.
Love (n.) looks through a telescope while envy looks through a microscope.
Love (n.) is contrasted with friendship in that friendship, like earthenware, can be mended, while love, like a mirror, once broken is done for.
Life (n.) is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on the stuff you're made of.
Life (n.) is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Marriage (n.) is risky when it's done for love, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Truth (n.) is such that, as scarce as it is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Truth (n.) is such that when it is in one's way, one is on the wrong road.
Truth (n.) is such that, if you want to get at it, hear both sides and believe neither.