"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

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Source : Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

Josh Billings

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“You look older.â€ â€œYes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.”
“The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.”
“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
“CÃ©zanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.”
“Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.”
“Secret, secret, I've got a secret,”
“But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.”
“Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.”

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