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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

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
Unhappy
Teacher
Happiness
Best
Good
Churlish
Deportment
Surely
Manners

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