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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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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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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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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 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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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