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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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