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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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