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BILLINGS, JOSH : As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : The trouble ain't that people are ignorant. It's that they know so much that ain't so. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

BILLINGS, JOSH : It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. (Josh Billings, U.S. humor writer and lecturer, often compared to Mark Twain, 1818-1895)