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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Pennsylvania
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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