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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

Bill Vaughan

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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
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
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Collision Myth Real
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Analysis Paralysis Suffer
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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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
BILL VAUGHAN

Evil Other World Worlds
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
BILL VAUGHAN

Expand Itself Knows Universe
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
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
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.
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Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHAN

Progress Stars Worry
Letters should be easy and natural.
BILL VAUGHAN

Easy Letters Natural

A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

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