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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

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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
Bedrooms
Bibles
Gideon
Bedroom
Usually
Late
Literature

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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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