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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

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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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Behaviour
Disposition
Manners
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Behavior
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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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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
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I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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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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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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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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