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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Author
Preacher
Theologian
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Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
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Magnificent
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