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Schriftsteller, Humorist, "Essay on the Mule" (USA,1818 - 1885).

Josh Billings · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Josh Billings wäre heute 207 Jahre, 0 Monate, 0 Tage oder 75.606 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.04.1818 in Lanesboro/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 14.10.1885 in Monterey/Kalifornien
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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• Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.

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• The best condition in life is not to be so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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• The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

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• The more humble a man is before God, the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

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• The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so.

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• The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

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• The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

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• There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

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• There are people who, if they ever get to heaven, will immediately start looking for their likes.

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

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• Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

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• Il y a des gens qui, si jamais ils atteignent le ciel, commenceront tout de suite à chercher leurs semblables.

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