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Show JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY As a general thing those who deserve good luk the least pray the loudest for it. Mi dear boy, select yure buzzum friend with grate caushun, once selected, endorse him with yure bottom dollar. I think I had rather live in a big city, and be unknown, than ??? in a village, obliged [unreadable], or be suspekt [lines unreadable] kan, it they will be az honest az I am about it. An immitashun to equal an original has got to beat it at least twenty-five per cent. If yer expekt to succeed in this life yer must make the world think that yer are at work for them, and not for yureself. You may find very plain looking coquets, but who ever saw a hansum prude? Life is meazured bi deeds, not years; many a man haz lived to be ninety, and left nothing behind him but an obituare notias. Men luv for the novelty of the thing, woman luvs because she kant help it. There is this excuse for luxury, all luxurys cost money, and sum one reaps the advantage. The man who kant laff is an animal, and the man who won't iz a devil. A festive old man is a burlesque on all kinds of levity. Fashion, like every thing else, repeats itself. What iz new now, haz been new menny times before, and will be again. |