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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
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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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 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 theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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