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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

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
Made
Praise
Men
Merely
Evolution
Creation
Hear
Days
Five
Done

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