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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Bill Vaughan

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bait Beauty Grace
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Evil People Weakness
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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God Soul Thrones
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Advertising Chaos Essence Speech
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
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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Progress Stars Worry
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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Band Drumming Power
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
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Alternatives Behaviour Mean
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
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Attention Four Result Upset
He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Desire Individual Needs
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians

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