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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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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
Birthday
Grown
Luck
Kids
Children

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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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