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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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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Truth
Disguises
Disguise
Fantastic
Safety
Prepared
Hours

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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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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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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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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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