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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
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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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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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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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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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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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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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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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