WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 29 May 2026 19:21:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg gilded cage – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-12 (1870 ed.) https://wist.info/billings-josh/76856/ https://wist.info/billings-josh/76856/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:17:47 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=76856 The chains ov slavery are none the lighter for being made ov gold.

[The chains of slavery are none the lighter for being made of gold.]


Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-12 (1870 ed.)
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In Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 "Affurisms: Embers on the Harth" (1874), this is rendered:

The chains ov slavery are none the less gauling for being made ov gold.
 
[The chains of slavery are none the less galling for being made of gold.]

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