...doctor tells just what an insane man is and what an insane man is not. J. Billings' loquitur: "It is better not to know so many things than to know so many that ain't so." Insanity is a large subject and cases are arising every day almost and in almost every...

...who said, " It is better / " Transfusion of blood is killing one man to get it into the other." •. not to know so many things than to know so \ many things that aint so." J Is it possible to find a greater fallacy in our whole educational scheme than that the lack of time...

...and such argument it is pertinent to affirm, in the language of Mr. Josh Billings, that it would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. The trouble with this mode of argument has been that it was characteristic of Mr. Kremlin,...

...Accuracy. — An American humorist has embodied an important truth in the following statement: " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so." Our histories and biographies have too often been filled with anecdotes and incidents...

...and such argument it is pertinent to affirm, in the language of Mr. Josh Billings, that it would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. The trouble with this mode of argument has been that it was characteristic of Mr. Kremlin,...

...formula, " What religion may do for a man." There is much truth in the dictum of Josh Billings : " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." Though the Trinity seems not to have had a father previous to the paternal trouvaille of Mr. Sears,...

...free trade, found in this message a new and splendid illustration of Mr. Kelly's definition, to wit: " Free trade is the science of assumption;" while the...applied the definition of Mr. Kelly and the remark of Josh Billings to Mr. Cleveland and his famous free trade message, and that they preferred a Congress...

...remark that as he listened to Dockery he was reminded of the quaint saying of Josh Billings that 'It is better not to know so many things, than to know so many th1ngs that ain't Bo.' That criticism of the speech to the preparation of which the Missourian had...

...one of them keeps a native mistress." To both my informants I should have liked to remark : " It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so." Some charges against missionaries are straight slander, many are clear misapprehensions,...

...of the particularly irritating nuisances of the time. As a keen humorist of our day has said, "It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." Every reader of the magazines and books that flood the market is aware what a veritably morbid appetite...