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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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