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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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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
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Grown
Luck
Kids
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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