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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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