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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 critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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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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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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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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