WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/76244/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Josh Billings</b></a></p><blockquote>Mankind ain’t apt tew respekt verry mutch what they are familiar with, it iz what we don’t know, or kant see, that we hanker for.<br> <br>[Mankind ain’t apt to respect very much what they are familiar with; it is what we don’t know, or can’t see, that we hanker for.]</blockquote><p><b>Josh Billings</b> (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]<br><i>Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor,</i> ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/76244/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/billings-josh/76244/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=desire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>desire</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=familiarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>familiarity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=imagination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagination</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mundane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mundane</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=normalcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>normalcy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=novelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novelty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>respect</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unknown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unknown</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=usual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usual</span></a></p>