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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
Language
Men
Life
Insightful
Foreign
Travel

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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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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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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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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 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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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 critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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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