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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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