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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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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Nothing
Taste
Rarer
Right
Genius
Sublime
Giving
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Note
Even
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Kind
Creative
Folly
Sure
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Touch
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Lyre

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