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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Bill Vaughan

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bait Beauty Grace
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

Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Countries Country World
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
BILL VAUGHAN

Frogs Ocean Understanding
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
BILL VAUGHAN

Names Political School
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHAN

Dinner Earth Eating
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
BILL VAUGHAN

Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Live constructively and live optimistically.
BILL VAUGHAN

Constructed Live Optimistically
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
BILL VAUGHAN

Enemy Lust Most
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Humor Law Moving
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
BILL VAUGHAN

Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
BILL VAUGHAN

Important Organization Work
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
BILL VAUGHAN

Advertising Chaos Essence Speech
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cops Improved Punishment Television
Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
BILL VAUGHAN

Ongoing Salvation Transformation
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baby Children Happiness

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