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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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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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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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