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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

Bill Vaughan

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Names Political School
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Hero Milion Murder Villain
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Enemy Lust Most
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.
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Creative Giving Sublime
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness
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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Believe Book Experience
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Garden Gardener Weed
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
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Christianity Convincing Shared
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Crime Dark Proof Window
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
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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Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk

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