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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Josh Billings?
- → A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
- → Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- → There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- → The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
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Pick the quote attributed to Josh Billings.
- → Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
- → Trust not him that seems a saint.
- → It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
- → Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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Select the quotation attributed to Josh Billings.
- → Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
- → The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
- → 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.
- → A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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One of these may be attributed to Josh Billings. Which one?
- → Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- → Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
- → I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- → It’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so.
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Which one of these belongs to Josh Billings?
- → A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- → There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
- → If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
- → I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Josh Billings?
- → They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- → The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- → Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- → As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Josh Billings.
- → There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- → The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
- → A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- → The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Josh Billings. Which one?
- → He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
- → There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- → Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- → Please all, and you will please none.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Josh Billings?
- → The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- → Never cut what you can untie.
- → Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
- → Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Josh Billings.
- → Success don’t konsist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the seckond time.
- → The discontented man finds no easy chair.
- → The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
- → An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Looks like Josh Billings is the author of one of these.
- → That most delicious of all privileges — spending other people’s money.
- → There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
- → Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all.
- → Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Josh Billings.
- → I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- → Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- → I am poor, and I am glad that I am, for I find that wealth makes more people mean than it does generous.
- → Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Which one should be attributed to Josh Billings?
- → Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- → The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- → No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- → Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Josh Billings?
- → Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- → Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
- → People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
- → Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
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Select the quote belonging to Josh Billings.
- → A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- → He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
- → One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- → Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Josh Billings.
- → A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- → Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- → There is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; they fight each other, instead of their husbands.
- → To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Josh Billings.
- → There is no greater human power on earth than the tremendous indignation of the people.
- → Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- → There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
- → The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Josh Billings?
- → If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
- → Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- → Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
- → While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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