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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

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
Enthusiasm
Merely
Personal
Effort
State
States
Unaccompanied
Mind
Fruitful
Optimism

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