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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
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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 rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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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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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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