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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Banking
Wherever
Grew
Becomes
System
Religion
Happens
Something

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seamed with scars martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
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If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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