A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Quotes by Josh Billings
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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