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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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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 success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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