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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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
Pennsylvania
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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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 is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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