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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Adversity
Value
Seen
Pleasure

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A tyrant does not remain in the world But the curse on him abides forever!
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The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
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Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
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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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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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