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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
Adversity
Value
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Pleasure
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In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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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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How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque
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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
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The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
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