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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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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Reading
Inspirational
Ounces
Book
Ink
Whole
Glue
Men
Sell
Life
Sells
Paper
Education

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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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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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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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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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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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