Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — Josh Billings' Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings' Philosophy.

New York Weekly. A man with a bed phull ov branes kan afford tew be kareless once in a while, for even biz blunders are brilliant—-—.— - —‘ Experience inkreases our wizdum, but don’t reduse our phollys. Buty is power; but the mos. treacherous one I kno ov. The man who haz got into the habit ov never making any blunders, iz altogether too good to live in this world. Humility iz a good thing tew hav, provided a man iz sure he haz got the right kind. There never is a time in a kat’s life when she is so humble az just before she makes up her mind tew pownce onto a chicken; or just after she haz caught and et it. I hav no doubt that the human hart kontains all the pure attributes that the angles posses, but no sin gle human hart kontains even a moity ov them. Sosiety iz made up ov the good, bad and indifferent; and what makes so much trouble iz, the indifferents are in the majority. When a man has done a charitable thing without letting the world kno it, he haz done all that an ang.e can do in the premises. Too much ov the religion in this world konsists in confessing our sins to ourselves and to each other. I don’t suppose thare has ever lived a man without a single virtew. Even Judas Iskariot “went and hanged himself.” The vanity ov most men iz so mutch more than a match for their experience that they seldom learn ennythiug bi experience. The pashums are like the wick ov a lighted kandle—they don’t die out until they are burned out.