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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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