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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Young
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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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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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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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