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Bill Vaughan

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Educational Funny Money
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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God Morning Waiting
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Brave England Heart
The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Look Perfume Showers Struggle
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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Art Military Success
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
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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Christmas Family Happy Inspirational
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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End Much World
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
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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Breath Death Ghost Learning More
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.
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Advertising Chaos Essence Speech
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
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Good Power Public Responsibility
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Creative Giving Sublime
Live constructively and live optimistically.
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Constructed Live Optimistically

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