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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Melts
Butter
Clay
Sun

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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil all there is, is beaut).
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Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.
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