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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Josh Billings

Angels

Man

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

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Flattery

Water

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

Genius

Common sense

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

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Road

Ruin

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Josh Billings

Money

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

Remarkable

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

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.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings

Job

Man

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Josh Billings

Nothing