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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.

Bill Vaughan

The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
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.
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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
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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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
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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Heart Love Philosophy
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Government Thursday
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
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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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
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
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.
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Character Forgiveness United States
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.
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Book Countries Country World
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Living Mean Work
The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense

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