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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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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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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 best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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