WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/76728/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Josh Billings</b></a></p><blockquote>Confess yure sorrows, yure fears, yure hopes, yure love, and even yure deviltrys tew men, but don’t let them git a smell ov yure poverty—poverty haz no friends, not even among paupers.<br> <br>[Confess your sorrows, your fears, your hopes, your love, and even your deviltries to men, but don’t let them get a smell of your poverty — poverty has no friends, not even among paupers.]</blockquote><p><b>Josh Billings</b> (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]<br><i>Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor</i>, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/76728/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/billings-josh/76728/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=candor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>candor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economicinjustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=honesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>honesty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=impoverishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impoverishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=prejudice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prejudice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=relationship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relationship</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=shame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shame</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a></p>