Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY [ARTICLE]

JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY

Nothing mortifys me so much az the kowardice I find In mi human natur. Necessity lz stronger than enny law, -gospel, or all the attributes ov human natur combined. Violent grief Iz like a straw fire; it soon expends itself, and, besides, leaves little ashes. I like a pashionate man better than a sullen one, just az I like a hornet more than I do a snaik. The man who kan’t learn ennytjhing, only bi experience, won’t profit even bi what he learns that way. In looking the whole thing over, very kluss, I think I never hav seen a ritch man who waz very We should look upon all failures with compashun, for We find even in a good cauze az meny failures az we do suckcesses. Thar iz nothing more dangerous to a yung man than the luv ov notoriety, for no one kan tell into what rekless paths it will lead him. One ov the gratest plezzures ov life iz to work for our children; but generally, the gratest drudgery that our children kan do lz to work for us. The man who kan’t keep a secret kan’t be trusted in ennything. He iz to be treated like an orange—the juice iz to be squeezed out ov him, and then he is to be dropt \ " The man who haz livetf to be three skore years and ten, and haz both eyes and ears wide open, and hiz thoughts alive, haz a full idea of all thare haz ever been in the world ov enny consequence iz now, or ever will be. Human natur lz the same now az It waz in the days ov Noah and hiz arK; the same kauzes produce thfe same results; and the we hav no reliable ackount ov .Noah’s having enny korns on his feet, he certainly would have if he wore boots a size and a half smaller than hiz feet.