Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
- Josh Billings - In Art
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings - In Art
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Josh Billings - In Business
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings - In Experience
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings - In Forgiveness
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings - In Intelligence
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings - In Life
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings - In Marriage
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings - In Words to the Wise
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