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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

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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
Privilege
Privileges
Finally
Aristocracy
Second
Superiority
Dies
Ages
Age
Passed
Three
Vanity
Vanities
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Third
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