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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

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
Foreign
Travel
Language
Men
Life
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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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 is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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