A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
BILL VAUGHANThe easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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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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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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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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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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