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    <title>Maxim of Josh Billings, 1885</title>
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    <namePart>Billings, Josh</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1818-1885</namePart>
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  <abstract>Maxim, "It is better to know less than to know so much that ain't so-," signed and written by Billings at the request of and presented to E. J. Devlin a few days before Billings's death.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Positive photocopy. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Humorist.  Born Henry Wheeler Shaw.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Devlin, E. J</namePart>
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    <topic>Maxims</topic>
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    <occupation>Humorists</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001724</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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