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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Bill Vaughan

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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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Disaster

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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
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