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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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Bryn Mawr
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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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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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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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