SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS
‘pportunitays, like eggs’ don’t kum 1 ■ueat a time. miv to-gaze upon a hily eddifcated ; intiiektooai woman, but I kant sa ■i I want tev belong tew one ov this L s. me honor iz a keen' perception oy . iz rite, falzo honor iz a keen affeclin ov what iz rong. Y'ive the devil hiz due, ” roads well ‘■V in a proverb, but mi vviend what hokum ov yew and me if this :.element iz karrod out ? < t jz jist az mutch mizery tew want a "oiid ring, ns tew want a shirt, the author who rites for bred, will . biz rrodors a taste ov emptins 1 ■ never knu a fowl wlio had’nfc a good ‘.’hieves bunt in conp’es, but a liar ■ no accomplice. . men gro older, their opinyuns, '• their disrazez, grow kronick.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 188, 21 October 1879, Page 3
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137SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS Temuka Leader, Issue 188, 21 October 1879, Page 3
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