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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Josh Billings

Influence

Woman

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

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

Power

Words

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

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Men

Economy

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

Gain

Politeness

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Josh Billings

Man

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Josh Billings

Nothing

Poor

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Arguments

Silence

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

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Time

Tongue

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.