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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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