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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.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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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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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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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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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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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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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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