"In teaching me the way to live It taught me how to die."
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Poets from the United StatesJournalists from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesPeople from PhiladelphiaPublishers from the United States
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My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris (October 10, 1802 – July 6, 1864) was an American editor and poet. With Nathaniel Parker Willis, he co-founded the New York Evening Mirror and the Home Journal, later renamed Town and Country.
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