WHAT JOSH BILLINGS SAYS.
'"Marrying a woman for her munny ii§ vera mutch like setting a rat-trap and baiting it with youre own finger. It is highly important, when a man makes up his mind tew bekum a raskall that he shud examine hisself clusely and see if he ain't better konstructed for a phool. ' . ... I argy in this way. if a man :» right he kant be too radikal, }i he is rong he kant be too coneervatiff. I beleave in the universal salvashun ov men, but I want tew pick the mea. I believed in sugiar-coated pills. I also beleave that virtue and wisdum kan be smuggled into a man's soul .bi a goodnatured proverb, better and deeper than tew be mortised into it with a wormwood mallet and chissell.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8832, 19 January 1907, Page 3
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131WHAT JOSH BILLINGS SAYS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8832, 19 January 1907, Page 3
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