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Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about our mutual friend's difficulty.'

The guy sounded like he worked for the CIA. Or Charles Dickens.


Josh Lanyon

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JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
JOSH BILLINGS The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
JOSH BILLINGS Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
JOSH BILLINGS Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
JOSH BILLINGS There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
JOSH BILLINGS Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
JOSH BILLINGS Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
JOSH BILLINGS There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
JOSH BILLINGS There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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