“Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.”

Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+mistake+vivacity+for+wit+thare+iz+about+az+mutch+difference+az+thare+iz+between+lightning+and+a+lightning+bug%22&pg=PT30#v=onepage (1870)

“Take awl the prophecys that hav cum tew pass, and awl that hav caught on the center, and failed tew cum tew time, and make them up in an average, and yer will find, that buying stock, on the Codfish Bank ov Nufoundland, at 50 per cent, for a rise, iz, in comparison, a good spekulatiff bizziness.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller's sister.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“Ventilashun iz a good thing, but when a man kant lay down and sleep in a 10 aker lot without taking down two lengths ov fence to let the wind in he iz alltogether too airish.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

“Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Speech at Stockport (8 June 1973), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 669.

“Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.”

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