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June 1970

The Beautiful Words

They come to us when we need them most, displacing the vulgar and the profane

THERE is a story of a little boy who had reached the age of seven without ever having spoken a word. One morning, when he came down to breakfast and found the toast burned, he said, "The toast is burned."

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