Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-01-12
Josh billings Philosophy.

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The best way to beat sum is to
agree with them.
When poIiteness iz an art, it IL the
most subtle ov all arts.
Don't hunt for happiness, but hunt
for as little mizery az possible.
rather like the phools; they act
more natral than ennybody else.
The tru way to dress is not to at
trakt attenshun, but to escape notiss.
All CRATE truths are the most SIM
Pile, just az simple az twice one are
two.
If gravity IL an evidence ov wis
dom, it don't kost mulch to appear
The human haTte has recesses in it
as unknown to its possessor as to
emmy one else.
If yu wish to lose mans luv,
and even friendship, make him de-
pend upon you.
The CRATE art in ridikule il so to
apply it that emmy one feels that it
don't mean them. ~.
Genyus hits the bulls eye the fust
time if it hits it at all. Talent hits
it bi long praktiss.
The real tru friend iz the one who
tell yu ov yure .failings, but hides
them from everybody else.
never hav saw a phool yet but
what waz in a CRATE hurrytto prove
it, and aliwuss suckcceded.
We esteem thoze who are superior
to us, endure thoZe who are equal,
aud luv thoze who are inferior.
take uotiss that th4ze people who
are ov'the least Consequence III this
world are always frnidest to die.
The devil is hero, aud So was Ju-
das .Isknrriott, hut | don't consider
either Ov them worthy pv imitashun.
To git thru this worid eazy. WI
must be prepared to give on all oc-
kashuns tull twice az mutch rs va
git
Laffing il said To be "a weakness.
but the wisest men | ever KIM were
allwuss on the lookout for good
laff.
The man whom You kan flatter is
-allwuss IN market, and you kan close
him out emmy time yu git the price
right.
A haff edicated man IL like haff
broke hprse-yn kant tel! what he IL
going To- do next; nor he kant tell
neither.
II yu want ennything ov the world
and expect to git it bekauze va de-
serve it, don't ask tor it, but de-
,mand it.
l had rather be an idiot than
,phool. Providence IL accountable
for the one, and l am accountable for
the other. m
WHARF thare IL one man who IL
honest from principal, thare are two
that are honest from vanity, aud
three from fear.
Silk and hang, old fellow, stik and
hang. Thare IL nothing plezes the
world more than to here that yu hav
CIV up your holt.
The most dangerous men are thoze
who have az mutch evil az good in
them; this IL the hardest kind ov an
average to preserve.
/ prefer a lunatik to fanatik. the
lunatik is mad on all subjikts, aud
kan be confined; the fanatik is mad
on one, and runs at large.
prefer a ded man to thoroly
lazy one; yu kan bury the ded one,
but 1 beleave thare iz a law against
'burying the other phellow.
Sum people say the best way IL to
take the bull by the horns, but say
take him bi the tale. then yu kan let
go when yu want to.
The CRATE mistake we old folks
make IL, we expekt to learn younger
ones by precept what we never would
learn ourselfs only bi experience.
Thare IL a CRATE deal Of phil ,sophy
that is nothing more than disappoint-
ed ambishun. Esop's fox preached
humility and psshunce when he
found ont that the grapes waz just
about . feet higher than he could
jump. - : '