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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
Birthday
Grown
Luck
Kids
Children

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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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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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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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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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