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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Eloquence
Useful
Constitution
Europe
Necessary
Makes
Nature
Country

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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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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 clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
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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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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
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