The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
BILL VAUGHANThe wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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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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Your thoughts are making you.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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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 learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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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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