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Take awl the prophecys that hav cum tew pass, and awl that hav caught…
Quote byJosh Billings · 1818–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873).
English (original)
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
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