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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
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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