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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Nations
Athens
States
Posterity
Minorities
Debt
Israel
England
Mankind
Elizabethan
Small
Florence

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