Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-12-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

" W llO 10 bllN VI q Ncu man
A. He who fights with adver
and though often whipped, HtlS4
knows it, a
Q. Who il the wisest man?
A. lie who korrekts in himself
the faults he dlskovers in others,
and who measures hiz faults bi biz
humility.
O. Who IL the handsomest
man?
A. He who kin lay aside hiz dig
nifty amung interiors without loz-
ing it, who kin make elegence mis-
taken for reverence amung superb
ors, and who kin git from his equals
more complaisance than he gives.
Q. Who is the yainest man?
A. He who kant see a peekok in
a bamyard in full bloom without
loosing hiz appetight for his din
ner.
Q, Who IL the meanest man?
A. He who gifts hiz luXurys bi
peeking thru key.holes,
Q. Who IL the happiest man?
A. He who knows ov many that
he haz made happy, and not one
that he haz made mizerable.
@. Who IL the purest man?
a. lie who would sooner pray
for q bumblebee who stung him
thah brake up biz nest.
Q, Who is the too generous
man ?
A. He who throws biz purse in
to a crowd, the man who gifts it
calls it good luck, and they who
don't git it call him a phool.
@. Who IL the truest man /?
A. He who kan distinguish be
tween our virtews and our vices,
and while he commends the one,
amt afraid tew condemn the other.
@. Who IL the greediest man?
A. He who kant see one woman
kiss another without crying for
sum ov it.
@. Who IL the biggist hypokrit?
A. He who calls vice plezure,and
then trys to make phool oy him
self by believing it.
Q. Who is the best philosopher ?
A. The man who pracktisses hiz
own precepts, and whose example
proves the truth of the precepts.
@. Who IL the best husband ?
A. He whose love for his wife IL
the constant esteem which he
shows her.
@. Who is the most beautiful
woman?
A. She whose buty everybody
feels and nobody sees.
@. Who is the best housewife ?
A. The woman who can make
the best hash out uf the least meat,
and whoze kat knows it IL deth tew
touch the kream on the milk pans.
@. Who IL the most chaste wo-
man?
A, She whom the angels have
whispered to.
@. Who IL the most intelligent
woman ?
A. She who knows that her pow
cr lies behind the throne, not on it,
@. Who IL the "strongest mind
ed" woman?
A, She who minds her own biz
ness, and sees to it that her hus-
band minds hiz.
@. Who IL the lovelyest girl in
the village?
A. The one who, like the violet,
tew be found, must be sought after,
and, when found, IL more surprized
than pIeazed who IL az nucon-
scious Of her buty az Hover, ana
az certain of her innocence and eX-
cellence az a diamond in its hiding
place.
O. Who IL the most industrious
woman?
A. She who hain't got emmy
spare time tew slander her nabors.
@. Who IL the most accomplish
woman?
A. The woman who kan paint
piktures of singular buty on the
broad and spotless canvas ov her
souls, and who IL alwuG
reddy tew play without asking, a
lively tune on the heart of her hus-
band.
@. Who is the vainest woman? ?
A. She hasn't been born yet.
@. Who is the noblest brother?
A. He who wears the honor ov
his sister, not in his breast pin, but
IN his heart.
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