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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Educational Funny Money
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
Your thoughts are making you.
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Making Person Thought
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
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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Book Ideas People
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Heaven Pity Way
The 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.
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Character Forgiveness United States
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Bird Century Firsts God Next
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Government Thursday
What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Humans May Plans
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

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