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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Christopher Morley

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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
Mind
Wider
Years
Printing
Never
Books
Printer
World
Winning
Explosive
Greater
Gunpowder
Stills
Explosives
Still
Ink
Book
Circulation

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