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Men are often praised for their sagacity, but all the foresight in the world can't tell a double-yoked egg until it is broken.

— Josh Billings

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I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

Men of genius are scarce, but men of genius who use their genius for the benefit of the world are scarcer.

What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1842)

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman All Fools (1605)

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