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 VAUGHANMuscles come and go; flab lasts.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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