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How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Kind
Calamity
Glass
Glasses
Fate
Truly
Perfect
Ordain
Human
Wherein
Humans
Wisely

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