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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

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
Enough
Much
Wedlock
Lock
Locks
Wedding
Trouble
Literature
Inspirational

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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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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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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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