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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Bill Vaughan

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Book Depend Fun Reading
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
BILL VAUGHAN

Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
BILL VAUGHAN

Animal Gratitude Hilarious
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
BILL VAUGHAN

Deeds Friendly God Noble
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Band Drumming Power
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Claims Country God Mankind
God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Fighting God Victory
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Highest Long Men Race Respond
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Invited Irritating Party

Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

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