The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-18
Josh Billings Papers.
PUDDIN AND MILK.

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of phellows in love who kan see twice as
much in their gals as kan.
The miser is riddle. What he posses
ses he haint got, and what he leaves be-
hind him he never had.
Good phisick is like a fiddle-it fur
nishes the tune, while nature cuts the pi-
geOn-wing and cures the patient.
Caution, though very often wasted, is a
good risk to take.
Pity iz about the meanest wash that
one man can offer another / had rather
have ten dollar greenback that had been
torn in two twice and pasted together,
than to have all the pity thare IL on the
upper side of the earth-pity IL nothing
more than quiet satisfacshun that l am
a great deel better oph than you am, and
that intend to keep so.
Fortune liz like coquette, If you don't
run after her she will run after you.
Did you ever hear very rich man sing?
fl was going to paint picktur of
Faith, Affection and Honesty, l would
paint mi dog looking up IN my face and
waggen his tail.
The devil IL a mean kuss he never
keeps his own promises, but alwus makes
us keep ours.
Truth liz az artless az child and az pur-
swasive
There iznothing in this life that men
pay so hi price for az they do for repent
ance
Laws are made, customs grOw-laws
nav tew be executed, customs execute
themselfs-laws begin where customs
end.
Men who have a good deal to say use
the fewest words.
The road tew wealth IL highway, but
the road to knowledge IL a byeway.
Shame IL the dieing embers of virtue.
don't know ov a better kure for sorrow
Than to pity somebody else.
Experience is a grindstun, and it IL
lucky for us if we kan get frightened by
it, not ground.
We shouldn't forgit one thing, that there
is not single fee simple on this futstool
even the best tooth in our head may fall
to aking before sun set and have to be
jerked out.
Ignorance is the wet nuss of prejudice.
Anticipation is constantly nibbling ex-
pekted pleasure until it consumes it jiss
so the skoolboy who visits his basket
during the forenoon too often has already
discounted his dinner.
never knu a man troubled with melan-
kolly who had plenty to dew, and did it.
Good breeding, az / understand it, IL
giving every man his dew, without rob-
bing yourself
Natur IL jst az honest as cow.
Talk little, but listen out loud, young
man, is the way to make the company sus-
pekt you of knowing CRATE deal more
than you aktually do.
If you should reduce the wants of the
people ov Nu York city down tew aktual
| necessitys, and plain comforts, yu wood
have to double the perlice force tew keep
them from committing suicide
People, when they find fault with their
sells, are generally more anxious to be
consoled than forgiven, and, therefore
when man begins to confess hiz sins to
me, and sez, "there amt no hope for him,
| tell him he ought tew know awl abou,
| 1T, and guess he is more than half right
What the world wants IL good examples
not so much advice; advice may be wrong
but examples prove themselfs.
Pride IL bogus. Adam at one time had
a right tew be proud, but he let sin bea,
him out of hiz birthright.
A growing hen and a cackling rueste,
are very misfortunate poultry in a family
Az "a ginral thing, a man who marrys
| "Ohioh w ihoiO uppCICIuSL tudu 0IInSei
will find the woman more anxious tev
preserve the distance between them thar
tew bring him up tew her grade or &c
down to his level.
Titles are valuable; they make us &C
quainted with menny persons who other
wise would be lost amung the rubbish.
Peace IL the soft and holy shadder tha,
virtew casts.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man.
brow, if you will smootbe out the one
will smoothe out the other.
1t is darned sight easier tew find siz
men who kan tell exactly how thing
ought to be did than tew find one who viii
do it.
Marrying for money is q meaner way
tew git II than counterfitting.
Dispatch is taking time bi the ears
Hurry IL taking it by the end ov the tail
The miser who heaps up gains tew gloa,
over IL like hog in pen fatted for 8
show.-New York Weekly.