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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

Bill Vaughan

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior Coats
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
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
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
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Believe Civilization Luxury
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
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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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
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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Baby Children Happiness
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

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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