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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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
Pennsylvania
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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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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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