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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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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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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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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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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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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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