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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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