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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.
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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Humans
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The plural of spouse is spice.
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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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