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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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