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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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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Creation
Hear
Days
Five
Done
Made
Praise
Men
Merely
Evolution

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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