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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.”
“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised