Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818 to October 14, 1885). As a writer, Billings specialized in sideways wisdom that landed as straight as polished philosophy. Affecting a deliberately folksy style, he mixed frontier plainness with sly observation, turning everyday human weaknesses into barn-door proverbs. Billings had a talent for shrinking grand truths into inescapable homespun one-liners.
Following
are three Billings quotes:
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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
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“Every man has his follies, and often they are the most interesting thing he
has got.”
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.”
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—Mitchell
Hegman
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