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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
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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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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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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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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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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