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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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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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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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