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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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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