Frasi di Josh Billings
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Josh Billings, pseudonimo di Henry Wheeler Shaw , umorista statunitense.

✵ 21. Aprile 1818 – 14. Ottobre 1885
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“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”

Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

“Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+mistake+vivacity+for+wit+thare+iz+about+az+mutch+difference+az+thare+iz+between+lightning+and+a+lightning+bug%22&pg=PT30#v=onepage (1870)

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

" Sollum Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=7rA8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22tew+know+nothing%22#v=snippet&q=%22tew%20know%20nothing%22&f=false". in Everybody's Friend: Josh Billing's Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)
Variant:
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Variante: I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

“I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.”

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Familiarity breeds kontempt.”

This only applies tew men, not tew hot bukwheat slapkakes, well buttered and sugared.
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

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