A quotation from Josh Billings

Q. — What do mankind gennerally take the most pride in?
A. — In sumthing their nabors haint got, nor kant git.
 
[Q. — What do mankind generally take the most pride in?
A. — In something their neighbors ain’t got, nor can’t get.]

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1879-09 “Questions, And Answers” (1879 ed.)

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