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Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
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Horace Greeley
Age: 61 †
Born: 1811
Born: February 3
Died: 1872
Died: November 29
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