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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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