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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

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
Friendship
Begin
Grow
Fashion
Contemplated
Grows
Haphazard
Tended
Friendships
Carefully

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