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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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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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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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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