Josh Billings

It yu hav got a ppirited and noble boy, appeel to bis gencrosity ; f yu bav got a hevy and sullen ma, ij peel to Lis back. A grate meny ov our people go abroad to improve their minds who h;idn't got anny minds when tliey war at bome 'r knowledge, like cbarity, should begin nt home, tben ppred. Nobody but a pbool will spcnd bis time trieing to convince a pbool. Timéis like mouey, tbe less ivo haT ov ittu spare tbc furthcr we mako it go. ïharo iz lots of folks who cat well and drink woll, aud sleej well, and yet are üick all tbc time - tbeze are the folks. tvho alwuz enjoy poor btalb. " Peoplo of good senae " are thesewbosu cpiiiyuiis ;i;ree with ours. Espcrience don't íuako a man so bold aa it duz caruful. Marryiiig an angel is tbo poetry ov ruaniage, but living witb her iz the prcze, and that iz all well euough if the taste ov the poetry bain't spilt our relish for tbo prozfi. There ount iu be a statue mnkicg it i Stato prisou offenae for a man to get ofl sucb a counndruin as tliis - it i simply diabolioal : " Why is an empty cbarupagne bottle like aD rrphan ? BecauBs it bas lost iti ' pop 7'