Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHANA statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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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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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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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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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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