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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
Luck
Kids
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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 success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
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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 world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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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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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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