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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Kissing
Fashion
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Heels
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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