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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Relation
Scruple
Masters
Asserted
Class
Scruples
Natural
Proportions
Character
Distorted
May
Relations
Without
Proportion
Entirely

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