Josh Billings
Josh Billings
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1818
CityLanesborough, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there isn't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
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Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
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It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do
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Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so
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To be a good critic demands more brains and judgment than most men possess
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
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Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust