Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
BILL VAUGHANThe United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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