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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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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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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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