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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Communication
Advice
Listening
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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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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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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.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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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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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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