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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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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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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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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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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