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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
Children

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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 plural of spouse is spice.
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