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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Mind
Makes
Deeply
Persons
Goodness
Soul
Inspire
Person
Capacity
Everything
Moral
Feel
Understanding
Tolerant
Feels
Wrong
Inspires
Great
Fear
Superiority

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