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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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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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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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