Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1904 — Josh Billings' Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings' Philosophy.

It is thoze wbo kreep that oftenest win the race. . A sassy man iz either a coward or a phool—take yure choice, gentlemen. Thare is no such thing az Invention; all things that we have are diskoverys. Familiarity iz never safe only between thoze ov grate strength ov karakter. Thare is nothing that a man will thrive so well on as abuse that isn’t merited. The grate trubble Is, the world la filling up with people ov big learning and small common sense. It lz bad enuff to be a fust-rate monkey, but to be a third-rate one la more disastrous than to be an ldeot. The grate mass ov mankind waste more time than they use, and they rant about the shortness and uncertainty ov life. Whenever you cum akrost a man wbo distrusts everyboddy, you have found one that it iz safe for everyboddy to distrust Yung man, studdy politeness. Even if yu ask a man for a toothplk after he baa got done using it, don’t fail to thank him for it politely. ' Natur never makes a mistake nor a blunder. When she undertakes, for instance, to make a phool, she glta him right tha fust time, and he kan’t ba Improved upon. If a man kan't write a para graft that la worth reading, be certainly kan't writ# a page. Tha strongest and moat lasting things that bar bees eed, hav been eed In three llaaa.