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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.”
“Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.”
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
“People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“We should make virtue our master, not our servant.”
Source: Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.”