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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Pennsylvania
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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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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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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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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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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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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