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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.

Christopher Morley

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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
Inspirational
Ounces
Book
Ink
Whole
Glue
Men
Sell
Life
Sells
Paper
Education
Reading

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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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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