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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
Insightful
Foreign
Travel
Language
Men
Life

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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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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 evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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