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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Lives
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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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