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"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."

Vaughn Monroe, American Musician

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"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."

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"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too."

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