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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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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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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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