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.
BILL VAUGHANOne 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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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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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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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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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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