JOSH BILLINGS' PHTLOSOPHY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 37, 12 February 1910, Page 15

JOSH BILLINGS' PHTLOSOPHY.

Tru luv konsists of quarrelle, and make ups. Most men argy just az they bet their mutiny—to win. I would not like to be the last man left on earth; the fust one was a failure, and I am afraid the last one will beWhen a government iz in a state of anarky, the highest place iz just az un safe az the lowest. Reputashun iz like wood, thare iz nothing that will take the stains out ov it. You will git more favors out ov the world if yu demand them than yu will it yu beg them. Very fu people examine the pedigree ov a suckcess. Honest men are not allwuss wize, bat wize men are allwuss honest. We all remember an insult longer Chan we do a kindness; even a dog recolekts the kik and forgits the krust. The man who haz lived to be a hundred years old, and hasn't got ennything else to brag ov, iz no better than an impostor, gk.:;The man whose ambishun iz to simply live, iz ov no more importance in this world than an extra rat iz. I kno lots ov people who are elegant in theorys, but praktikally ain't worth a kuss; they kan tell you just how to take up a mule's foot, but they kant do it themselfs without gitting knokt endways. Biographys are delitefull reading; we kompare all the virtews ov the person's karakter with our own, and all his failings with our nabor's.

The man -who is good in a tite spot iz safe in a loose one.

We leant be perfect, hut we kan be better than we are.