Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
BILL VAUGHANThe ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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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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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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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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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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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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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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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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