“I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.”

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

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American humorist 1818–1885

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“I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.”

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