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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

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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
Fifty
Percent
Seem
Seems
Women
Always
World
Novelty

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