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 VAUGHANThe 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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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.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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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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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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