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Show PHllH CALLS UY JOSH BILLINGS. BIL-LINGS. Sins are the only thinpa i repent ov- i never could make enoytbing repoDting ov blunders. I thank Lhe lord for this, we all ov us huv sum good thiop tew lay our bad luk tew besides oursells. Whisky friends aro the most unprofitable un-profitable ones i koo ov; they are always reddy tew drink with yu, but when yu are reddy to drink with them, ihey ain't dry. I look upon a pure joke with the same venerashun. tliat i do upon the 10 commandments. Yu kant hire a man lo be honest, ho will want hia wages raized every tuorntug. -m. - The most successful men i hav ever known, are those who are konstantly making blunders) but Dever seem tew koo it. I kno plenty ov folks wrio aro so kontrary, that if they should fall into a river, they would insist upon floating up stream. One ov the most reliable prophets i kno ov iz an old heo; they don't prophesy enny egg, until after the egg has happened. Mi opinyun iz, and will kontinuo tew be, that the phools hav done about az much hurt io this world az the mali-shus mali-shus hav. Temper should be curbed,- not broken. I don't kno ov ennytbing, in this world, that iz worth more than money that iz honestly got, and virtuously spent. The truly great are alwus the eazyest tew approach. Fun, deviltry and deaih lurk in the wine-cup. I wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a man's sektarian views cnoy quicker thau i would tell him which road tew take at a 4 corners, when i didn't know miself which waz the right one. I havn't mutch doubt that man sprung from the monkey, but what bothers me iz whare the cuasid monkey sprung from. Aftur a man has got a good opinyun ov himself, the next best thing is tew hav the good opiuyuo ov others. Most enny body thinki they kan he a good phool, and they kan, but tew pluy tho phool good iz not so bandy. It may be a leeilc vcxahus, but I don't konsider it aoy disgrace, to be bit bi a dog. Abuse generally iz healthy, but sum-times sum-times it oums from so low a source -that it don't do a man enny good. It takes more time aud t-illents tew be a suekccasi'ul hypokiit than it duz tew be a Christian. There are but phew things that wo suffer more misery from than from cowardice. The cIusb intimacy s ov old age seem to konsist in komparing gouts and ru-matis. ru-matis. Mankind seem tew take about az much interest in braggin ov their falls az ov their viriews. About the best thing that enny ov us ken do iz tew konceal our phalings. Persons ov the coldest nature when they dew luv, luv the fiercest so green wood when it gits to burning makes the hottest fire. Suckcess iz az hard to define az falling fall-ing oph a log ; a man kant alwaze tell : exackly how he did it. Thare is one pashun (and it iz the meanest one) that no man that buz ever lived haz been free from, and that iz envy. Indolence iz ono ov the strongest pabuns, bckausc it iz one ov the most natural ones. Integrity in youth iz almost certain teiv bckum wizduin and honer in old age. Tharc iz no person worth being jcal-oub jcal-oub ov who iz willing tew bo tho kauzo ov it |