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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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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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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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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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