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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. —Josh Billings

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] humorist, essayist

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