Happiness
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
 Josh Billings
American humorist
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| born | * April 21, 1818, Lanesboro, Massachusetts, USA | |
| died | † October 14, 1885, Monterey, California, USA | |
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| Billings was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.
Billings was born in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, and worked as a farmer, coal miner, explorer, and auctioneer before he began making a living as a journalist and writer in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1858. Under the pseudonym "Josh Billings" he wrote in an informal voice full of the slang of the day, with often eccentric phonetic spelling, dispensing wit and folksy common-sense wisdom. His books include Farmers' Allminax, Josh Billings' Sayings, Everybody's Friend, and Josh Billings' Trump Kards.
He toured, giving lectures of his writings, which were very popular with the audiences of the day. | |
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