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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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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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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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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