One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHANWhere are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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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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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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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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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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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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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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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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