The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHANMost 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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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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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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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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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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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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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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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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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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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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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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