A quotation from Josh Billings

Q. — What is pity?
A. — Cheap charity.

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-12 (1871 ed.)

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